[parisc-linux] init and exit text problem

[James Bottomley]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 11:50, Joel Soete wrote:
> +  /* When something in the kernel is NOT compiled as a module, the
> +   * module cleanup code and data are put into these segments.  Both
> +   * can then be thrown away, as cleanup code is never called unless
> +   * it's a module.
> +   */
> +  /DISCARD/ : {
> +	*(.exit.text)
> +	*(.exit.data)

This is wrong...exit.text and exit.data are runtime discards, not link
time ones, precisely because of the compile failures you get.

> +	*(.exitcall.exit)

This one should be OK.

I'm not sure we can actually do this, though...I seem to remember that
our 64 bit toolchain is not too happy doing discard sections.

James