Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:26:45 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: "Tseng, Kuo-Lang" <kuo-lang.tseng@intel.com> Cc: "freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Declaration of intrcnt and eintrcnt in amd64/amd64/support.S Message-ID: <20090605202645.GF1927@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <63FEFD5869C1DB49B69DCC57DF8F2157CA0D2B62@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <63FEFD5869C1DB49B69DCC57DF8F2157CA08AD20@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> <20090605180053.I15681@delplex.bde.org> <63FEFD5869C1DB49B69DCC57DF8F2157CA0D2B62@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
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--fwoMm750e/OqJ5Gb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:01:50AM -0700, Tseng, Kuo-Lang wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote on Friday, June 05, 2009 1:06 AM: >=20 > > 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 >=20 > Can we fix it soon? See r193535. --fwoMm750e/OqJ5Gb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkopf4QACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4iNlwCg8mAT19rOc0GVVzRqydQuJrBT 9NEAoJVG63YY4LlpBUU+ervtLlrpJpUL =1VzP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fwoMm750e/OqJ5Gb--
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