Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/17/15 20:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> const struct
>> foo__attribute__((used,section(".rodata.tbl.tablename.0"))) tablename[0];
>>
>> const struct
>> foo__attribute__((used,section(".rodata.tbl.tablename.999")))
>> tablename__end[0];
>>

(Over)thinking about this some more, I suggest using the empty string
for the start and "~" for the end.  And, yes, I did check that ~ works
as part of a section name.

Something that confuses me is that gcc seems to give these sections the
"aw" attributes which makes as complain.  This might be a gcc bug.
Worst case we have to use an assembly statement to create these
sections; it isn't a big deal and shouldn't make it any more
architecture-specific.

	-hpa