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Re: [Xen-devel] Clang/LLVM version requirements



Il 13/09/2012 16:04, Jan Beulich ha scritto:
>>> >> So the patch is fine by me if it covers that misalignment case.
>>> >> But it seems a little heavy handed - I'd think that instead of the
>>> >> sub-section, we could just create an arbitrary other section, or
>>> >> even allow uninitialized variable (it's unclear to me why Paolo
>>> >> wrote the comment - in c/s 25479:61dfb3da56b - regarding BSS
>>> >> the way it is now) - after all we only need to make sure that
>>> >> - the space gets properly allocated in trampoline.S, i.e. also in
>>> >>   reloc.bin
>>> >> - all accesses are PC-relative
>>> >> Neither has anything to do with use of uninitialized variables.
>> > 
>> > We cannot use BSS because it doesn't appear in reloc.S.
> That, imo, would be a binutils bug.

It's just because the flags say so.  Tim's flag magic should do it (my
reply crossed with his).

Paolo

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