Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 21/23] x86/boot: implement early command line parser in C

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 01:22:05PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On August 16, 2015 9:48:05 AM EDT, George Diamantopoulos 
> <georgediam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've been trying to compile xen with multiboot2 support, but building
> >has
> >been failing. Tried with both gcc-4.8.4 and gcc-5.2 on ivybridge and
> >amdfam10h, same results.
> >
>
> CCing Daniel who has been troubleshooting that. It is compiler tools related 
> and with older compilers it works.

New GCC calculates jump address for C switch/case using .rodata section.
The simplest solution/workaround seems change to series of ifs but not
nice. I must think about better fix for this issue.

Daniel

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