From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection - rename sections
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:29:50 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080624T072614-586@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711241517.00164.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Hi,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>
> On Saturday 24 November 2007 15:14, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > 1.fixname:
> > Rename all special sections with names like .text.xxxx, .data.xxxx and
> > .rodata.xxxx to .xxxx.text/data/rodata. This makes it possible to
> > not mix up these sections with gcc-generated ones
> > when gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections is used.
> > .bss.xxxx cannot be treated this way, because for section names
> > linke .xxxx.bss gcc won't create section with correct attribute.
> > Thus .bss.xxxxx sections are renamed .bss.k.xxxxx.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux <at> googlemail.com>
Why not rename all the section to .type.k.xxxxx ?
This will be more consistent between bss and other section. Also I find it
cleaner to have the section type first.
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 20:05 [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-11 20:07 ` [PATCH 1/4] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-11 20:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-11 20:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-11 20:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-11 21:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] " Daniel Walker
2007-09-12 20:18 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-12 20:52 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-11 21:03 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Andi Kleen
2007-09-12 20:19 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-13 18:26 ` Abhishek Sagar
2007-09-13 18:35 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-14 18:06 ` Abhishek Sagar
[not found] ` <20071118230057.GA6303@uranus.ravnborg.org>
2007-11-24 23:14 ` [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection - rename sections Denys Vlasenko
2008-06-24 7:29 ` Matthieu CASTET [this message]
2007-11-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] build system: section garbage collection - modpost fix Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-24 23:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] build system: section garbage collection - main part Denys Vlasenko
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