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Subject: Re: INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE broken?
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On Saturday 16 April 2005 03:56 am, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> > You could just use the existing mechanism __IDSTRING(), preferably
> > after fixing it to actually work.  (__IDSTRING() generates invalid
> > asm if the string has a newline in it.  Among other bugs, this
> > breaks most uses of __COPYRIGHT().)
>
> __IDSTRING() places the string in a separate section.  By default,
> strings(1) only extracts strings from code and data sections, so the
> good old 'strings -n 3 kernel | grep \^___' wouldn't work.  Not a big
> deal, but still a slight POLA breach.

True, but 'strings -a' will do the entire file...

Or we can do what linux does and insert things into any section we like=20
by using the gas
  .incbin "filename"
construct.  I'm not sure if I like that any more than using objcopy to=20
insert a section.
=2D-=20
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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