Re: [PATCH] powerpc/32: Include .branch_lt in data section

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:47:52PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:

Alan Modra [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:32:18PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:

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I wasn't sure where this should go or if the ordering matters.

The usual answer is: "Look at where the section goes in the standard
linker scripts."   But that doesn't apply here.  The section will be
empty for a kernel build so it doesn't matter where it goes.

If it's empty why don't we just discard it?

That can be a recipe for finding linker bugs.  Not that I'm against
you finding linker bugs.  ;-)

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM