Re: changed section attributes

2000-10-31 Thread Petko Manolov
Keith Owens wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:29:16 +0200, > Petko Manolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I wonder why the compiler decides to add ".section > >.modinfo,"a",@progbits" > >May be this is the thing which should be fixed. > > That is just gcc speak for section .modinfo is marked as a

Re: changed section attributes

2000-10-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:29:16 +0200, Petko Manolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I wonder why the compiler decides to add ".section >.modinfo,"a",@progbits" >May be this is the thing which should be fixed. That is just gcc speak for section .modinfo is marked as allocated, type progbits. Read the

Re: changed section attributes

2000-10-31 Thread Petko Manolov
Keith Owens wrote: > > >Changing the declaration in linux/module.h to ".modinfo,"a"" > >fixed the problem, but i noticed that the author said that > >"we want .modinfo to not be allocated" > > Historically that was the only way of preventing the .modinfo section > from being included in modules

Re: changed section attributes

2000-10-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:54:05 +0200, Petko Manolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo" > >Changing the declaration in linux/module.h to ".modinfo,"a"" >fixed the problem, but i noticed that t

changed section attributes

2000-10-31 Thread Petko Manolov
Hi there, I noticed that when i changed to binutils 2.10.91 (Debian,woody) i start to see messages like: "Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo" Chasing down the problem appeared that section modinfo is declared for the first time as ".section .modin