From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756331AbXJNAYl (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:24:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754208AbXJNAYc (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:24:32 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38544 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752762AbXJNAYb (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:24:31 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] frv: Remove duplicate output of .exit.data X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 22.1.50 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:17:51 +0100 Message-ID: <21428.1192267071@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > When CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is unset the input .exit.data sections are copied > twice to vmlinux. Remove the copy made to .init.text and keep one in > .data only. No, they aren't. I believe the linker only makes one copy of each section, and once a copy is inserted, all other attempts to make a copy of it are ignored. NAK. David