Re: Please include const-sections into linux-next

[James Bottomley]

On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 17:53 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > I think it's probably a compiler bug.  gcc isn't as adept with section
> > annotations as people think it is.  This tends to manifest in the
> > non-x86 toolchains because we tend to be using earlier versions.
> > 
> 
> It compiles fine with my cross-compiler using gcc-4.5.1.

So it's a native toolchain bug in gcc ... the point still stands:
there'll be tons of these throughout non x86 tool chains.  You can't
break every arch under the sun just for a dubious mark stuff const.

James


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