Hi Nick,
On 09/22/2014 09:24 PM, nick wrote:
Greetings James and Other Maintainers of the Parisc Architecture,
I am wondering about two fix mes in init.c and how to fix them
for being const declared into actual variables.
...
/* FIXME: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler
into not treating it as DP-relative data. */
extern void * const linux_gateway_page;
The FIXME: is misleading. It should maybe better read "HINT:" or something like
that.
Trivially it's basically just casting the symbol so that the compiler
will produce the correct code later on.
There is nothing you could try to "fix".
Helge
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