On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Dmitry Torokhov [off-list ref] wrote:

Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into
independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect
array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in
different situations.

Why not?

That's what we normally do. Just align the "__modver", and you should
be all good. What's the problem?

                     Linus