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Re: section placement q
Andrew Morton wrote:
> There's nothing inherently bad about being to divert the section for
> strings. You just need to know what you're doing, no?
That's the problem. Not only can it be tricky -- do you think every
device driver author knows what __init etc. really mean? But also even
when it's wrong, it will often appear to work. A warning would be nice.
Perhaps this is out of GCC's scope though, along with lock checking.
-- Jamie