Section garbage collection problem

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sunday 16 September 2007 20:01, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:42:25PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > What do you think about it? Will such patch to as be acceptable in principle?
> > Maybe you can think about better solution?
> 
> The section name is irrelevant.  You just want a bunch of .smp_locks
> sections in one object file that are not automatically combined into
> one larger .smp_locks section per object.  That's perfectly fine ELF
> but I don't think gas can do it.

This will not only need hacking on gas, but also fixing
Linux kernel biuld process to not do intermediate "ld -r"
passes which collect stuff into one built-in.o file 
per source directory.

> Another way would be to do it with assembler macros for now; see \@ in
> the manual.

Now *this* is interesting, will try. Thanks!
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vda