Re: [PATCH 2/6] FRV: Fix FRV arch compile errors [try #3]

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:

> ocrap, I didn't read this bit.  Really?

Really.  See the reply I sent a short while ago for more details.

> We skip the section tag on the declaration all over the place and keeping
> them in sync is going to be quite unreliable due to lack of compiler
> checking.

Yeah.  I've added quite a few previously to get FRV to link.

> So this wants to be __meminitdata.  Problem.  How does it manifest on FRV? 
> A linker error or a mysterious crash?

A linker error: the offset from the GP-register position to the variable
exceeds what'll fit in an address offset field.

David
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