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From: Philip Kranz <philip.kranz@googlemail.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Sebastian Wankerl <sisewank@cip.cs.fau.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Philip Kranz <philip.kranz@googlemail.com>,
	i4passt@lists.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,
	linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add non-zero module sections to sysfs
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 12:40:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130406104053.GA24710@yoda.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365156435.1970.31.camel@dabdike>

Hello.

On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:07:15PM +0200, James Bottomley wrote:
> Just so you know: this isn't a parisc specific problem.  Gcc produces
> duplicate section names under various circumstances, but the one that
> bites us is -ffunction-sections.  Note that there are proposals to use
> -ffunction-sections on all architectures (so we can garbage collect
> unused functions) in which case you'll induce the bug identified in
> 35dead4235e2b67da7275b4122fed37099c2f462 on every architecture

I am not able to produce an object file with duplicate section names
using gcc on x86. Even with -ffunction-sections, every section gets a
unique name. Is this architecture-specific behaviour of gcc?

Greetings,
Philip


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-06 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03 13:08 [PATCH] Add non-zero module sections to sysfs Sebastian Wankerl
2013-04-04  1:00 ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-04  9:40   ` Sebastian Wankerl
2013-04-05  4:00     ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-05  9:40       ` Sebastian Wankerl
2013-04-05 10:07       ` James Bottomley
2013-04-06  4:52         ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-06 10:52           ` James Bottomley
2013-04-06 15:16             ` John David Anglin
2013-04-07  1:22               ` James Bottomley
2013-04-07  1:45                 ` John David Anglin
2013-04-06 10:40         ` Philip Kranz [this message]
2013-04-08  4:14           ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-08 11:55             ` Philip Kranz
2013-04-11 14:11             ` Philip Kranz
2013-04-05 14:56       ` Sebastian Wankerl
2013-04-06  4:31         ` Rusty Russell

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