bogus "ignoring changed section type" warning

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 03:35:58PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Isn't this warning rather odd for code like this:
> 
> 	.section	.init.rodata,"a"
> 	.section	.init.rodata,"a",@progbits
> 
> especially since with just the first directive, the section ends up being
> progbits anyway (due to elf_fake_sections() deriving the type from the
> section flags)?

Yes, there ought to be a warning on the first directive rather than on
the second one.

> Wouldn't it hence make sense to guess an unspecified
> section type from the flags right away,

Probably.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM