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Re: [PATCH] Re: Gate DSO not building properly?

From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: Ian Wienand <ianw at gelato dot unsw dot edu dot au>
Cc: linux-ia64 at vger dot kernel dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:48:13 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Gate DSO not building properly?
References: <20031021061051.GA5846@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <20031022034547.GA14783@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:45:47PM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:10:51PM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote:
> > arch/ia64/kernel/gate-data.S:1: Warning: setting incorrect section
> > attributes for .data.gate
> 
> I figured out why (sorry if it's obvious); gas matches anything with
> prefix '.data.' as a data special section and flags it as 'SHF_ALLOC +
> SHF_WRITE' as per ELF [*].  Issuing 
> 
> .section .data.gate, "ax"
> 
> thus conflicts as it's assumed to be an extension of a .data section.
> 

Here is a patch for gas. Gas should set the right section attributes
no matter what.


H.J.

Attachment: gas-attr-1.patch
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