INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE broken?

[Peter Wemm]

On Saturday 16 April 2005 03:56 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Bruce Evans <bde at 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 
by using the gas
  .incbin "filename"
construct.  I'm not sure if I like that any more than using objcopy to 
insert a section.
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