Re: 2.5.59 vmlinux.lds.S change broke modules

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
17 Jan 2003 20:08:08 -0700


Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:13:14AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > That has been roughly my experience on x86 as well with the exception
> > of bss sections. For bss sections placing the symbols inside the section
> > itself has been deadly.
>
> Could you elaborate a bit more what you have seen?

Sorry. Placing symbols inside .bss sections (sections by any name
that are not allocated) has occasionally given them values not as
expected. While at the same time placing the symbols around the .bss
sections has worked reliably for me.

Eric
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