From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754102AbcAVNpN (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:45:13 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53408 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753891AbcAVNpB (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:45:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:44:56 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Matz To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, luto@amacapital.net, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, mcb30@ipxe.org, jgross@suse.com, JBeulich@suse.com, joro@8bytes.org, ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com, andreyknvl@google.com, long.wanglong@huawei.com, qiuxishi@huawei.com, aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, mchehab@osg.samsung.com, valentinrothberg@gmail.com, peter.senna@gmail.com, x86@kernel.org, Michal Marek , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables In-Reply-To: <56A13D42.7040500@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <1450217797-19295-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <56731D32.4040900@zytor.com> <20151217234625.GM20409@wotan.suse.de> <56738AAF.2080601@zytor.com> <56738E29.3070605@zytor.com> <56A13D42.7040500@zytor.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (LSU 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Something that confuses me is that gcc seems to give these sections the > "aw" attributes which makes as complain. This might be a gcc bug. Workaround: use an (possibly empty) intializer: struct foo {int i;}; const struct foo __attribute__((used,section(".rodata.tbl.tablename.0"))) tablename[0] = {}; Ciao, Michael.