[PATCH 0/1] gas: add new command line option --no-group-check

[Xi Ruoyao]

On Sat, 2023-07-22 at 11:47 +0800, Tan Yuan wrote:
> 
> We hope to modify code like this in the kernel:
> +   #define ___PASTE(a,b) a##b
> +   #define __PASTE(a,b) ___PASTE(a,b)
> +   #define __UNIQUE_ID_GROUP __PASTE(__PASTE(__COUNTER__, _),
> __LINE__)
>     
>     #define __ASM_EXTABLE_RAW(insn, fixup, type, data)     \
> -           ".pushsection   __ex_table, \"a\"\n"            \
> +           ".attach_to_group " __stringify(__UNIQUE_ID_GROUP) "\n" \
> +           ".pushsection   __ex_table, \"a?\"\n"           \
>             "…"                            \
>             ".popsection\n"

Note that even if this Binutils patch is accepted, it will only show up
in Binutils-2.42 and later.  So the kernel maintainers will reject this
change, as you cannot tell everyone "use Binutils >= 2.42 to build the
kernel".

I'd suggest to try figuring out a better solution.
-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University