On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, David Howells wrote:
> > When CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is unset the input .exit.data sections are copied
> > twice to vmlinux. Remove the copy made to .init.text and keep one in
> > .data only.
>
> No, they aren't. I believe the linker only makes one copy of each section,
> and once a copy is inserted, all other attempts to make a copy of it are
> ignored.
Fair enough -- a quick test shows you are right. Wouldn't it deserve a
comment, though? I know hardly anybody dares looking into these scripts,
;-) but those who do, may not be sure this setup is intentional.
Maciej
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