Re: Please include const-sections into linux-next

James Bottomley
2011-10-16T00:58:18Z

On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 17:53 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> > I think it's probably a compiler bug. gcc isn't as adept with section
> > annotations as people think it is. This tends to manifest in the
> > non-x86 toolchains because we tend to be using earlier versions.
> >
>
> It compiles fine with my cross-compiler using gcc-4.5.1.

So it's a native toolchain bug in gcc ... the point still stands:
there'll be tons of these throughout non x86 tool chains. You can't
break every arch under the sun just for a dubious mark stuff const.

James