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From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To: Tan Yuan <tanyuan@tinylab.org>, amodra@gmail.com
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, jbeulich@suse.com, falcon@tinylab.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] gas: add new command line option --no-group-check
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 11:56:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36ddb62827e935470fe09487e78142128641816b.camel@xry111.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <828101CD9EDF8D8E+20230722034757.3071005-1-tanyuan@tinylab.org>

On Sat, 2023-07-22 at 11:47 +0800, Tan Yuan wrote:
> 
> We hope to modify code like this in the kernel:
> +   #define ___PASTE(a,b) a##b
> +   #define __PASTE(a,b) ___PASTE(a,b)
> +   #define __UNIQUE_ID_GROUP __PASTE(__PASTE(__COUNTER__, _),
> __LINE__)
>     
>     #define __ASM_EXTABLE_RAW(insn, fixup, type, data)     \
> -           ".pushsection   __ex_table, \"a\"\n"            \
> +           ".attach_to_group " __stringify(__UNIQUE_ID_GROUP) "\n" \
> +           ".pushsection   __ex_table, \"a?\"\n"           \
>             "…"                            \
>             ".popsection\n"

Note that even if this Binutils patch is accepted, it will only show up
in Binutils-2.42 and later.  So the kernel maintainers will reject this
change, as you cannot tell everyone "use Binutils >= 2.42 to build the
kernel".

I'd suggest to try figuring out a better solution.
-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-22  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-21 15:14 Tan Yuan
2023-07-21 22:55 ` Alan Modra
2023-07-22  3:47   ` Tan Yuan
2023-07-22  3:56     ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]
2023-07-23  9:31       ` Tan Yuan
2023-07-22  0:32 ` Song Fangrui
     [not found] <DS7PR12MB5765A326273E125586D742F7CB3CA@DS7PR12MB5765.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
2023-07-23  9:10 ` Tan Yuan
2023-07-23 17:15   ` Fangrui Song
2023-07-24  9:28 ` Tan Yuan

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