On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:05:08AM -0800, Kip Walker wrote: > I just investigated assembler warnings coming from > arch/mips/kernel/entry.S (checked out as of 12/07 00:00 UTC), and > noticed the following. After expanding macros, you get something like: > > .text > > .section ".text.init" (from __INIT) > > .data (from PANIC) > .previous (from PANIC) > --> section is now .text.init > > .previous (from __FINIT) > --> section is now .data, not .text as intended. > > Perhaps .pushsection and .popsection should be used in some or all > macros like this? > > Or am I smoking crack? Certainly not. The problem is known and so far I've just hacked around it more or less elegant. But it's a trap and so I think we've got good reasons to force people to upgrade to a newer assembler than the current minimal version. The question is which - I don't like frequent tool upgrades. Ralf
