Declaration of intrcnt and eintrcnt in amd64/amd64/support.S

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Mon Jun 8 05:33:50 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 09:09:41PM -0700, Tseng, Kuo-Lang wrote:
> Kostik Belousov wrote on Friday, June 05, 2009 1:27 PM:
> > 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:
> >> 
> >>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Tseng, Kuo-Lang wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> 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?
> >>> 
> >>> 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.
> >>> 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. 
> >>> 
> >>> intrnames and eintrnames are also in the text section.
> >>> 
> >>> Bruce
> >> 
> >> Can we fix it soon?
> > 
> > See r193535.
> 
> Is this a bug id? Can someone please forward me the link to the database? 
> 

It's the subversion revision number.

-- 
Steve


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