From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750705AbWGFS3c (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:29:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750723AbWGFS3c (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:29:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:9410 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750705AbWGFS3c (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:29:32 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20060706103622.ebf00e68.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060706103622.ebf00e68.akpm@osdl.org> <20060706124716.7098.5752.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060706124721.7098.50514.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, bernds_cb1@t-online.de, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] FRV: Fix FRV arch compile errors [try #3] X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:29:25 +0100 Message-ID: <25951.1152210565@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > ocrap, I didn't read this bit. Really? Really. See the reply I sent a short while ago for more details. > We skip the section tag on the declaration all over the place and keeping > them in sync is going to be quite unreliable due to lack of compiler > checking. Yeah. I've added quite a few previously to get FRV to link. > So this wants to be __meminitdata. Problem. How does it manifest on FRV? > A linker error or a mysterious crash? A linker error: the offset from the GP-register position to the variable exceeds what'll fit in an address offset field. David