nonfunctional.

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Tue Apr 18 00:45:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 04:28:49PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> > Some bit of kernel code marked a variable with __init instead
> > of __initdata.  The flags for a section come from its first use.
> 
> Which reminds me.  I was going to look at adding code to emit a warning
> when the linker detects changes in section flags.  Is this a silly thing
> to do?

Won't help here, since the linker won't detect anything.  IIRC,
recent gcc will warn or error on this.  I thought they all did,
but obviously not.


r~


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