On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 01:44:45PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > Philip Kranz <philip.kranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I am not able to produce an object file with duplicate section names > > using gcc on x86. Even with -ffunction-sections, every section gets a > > unique name. Is this architecture-specific behaviour of gcc? > > Good point. ld -r will collapse them into the same section (since gcc > produces them they have to have the same section attributes). > > You can do it with --unique, but no arch uses that. PARISC has a > platform-specific toolchain hack which does that for .text sections. > (Thanks to Alan Modra for that clue...) So that problem is indeed platform-specific. If it is safe to assume that kernel modules don't have duplicate section names (except on PARISC), it would make sense to simply move the check for empty sections to arch/parisc as you suggested. James, what do you think about that? Greetings, Philip -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
