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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:01:50 -0700
From:      "Tseng, Kuo-Lang" <kuo-lang.tseng@intel.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        "freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Declaration of intrcnt and eintrcnt in amd64/amd64/support.S
Message-ID:  <63FEFD5869C1DB49B69DCC57DF8F2157CA0D2B62@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090605180053.I15681@delplex.bde.org>
References:  <63FEFD5869C1DB49B69DCC57DF8F2157CA08AD20@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> <20090605180053.I15681@delplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans wrote on Friday, June 05, 2009 1:06 AM:

> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Tseng, Kuo-Lang wrote:
>=20
>> Currently these two variables are stored in the .text section
>> because they are declared without a .data directive. Is there any
>> reason why they are not declared with .data directive? Or this is
>> missing?  =20
>=20
> This is just a bug, as is formatting mail for 220-column terminals.
> It is missing in the reference i386 version which has a .data
> directive before some other variables that don't exist on amd64.=20
> Apparently, these variables only work because the text section is not
> write protected.  Write protection of the text section was lost long
> ago on i386.
>=20
> intrnames and eintrnames are also in the text section.
>=20
> Bruce

Can we fix it soon? =



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