the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 60db58e8b876963bee4b568c536bfb538a2b9e85 Author: Patrick Georgi patrick@georgi-clan.de Date: Sat Jan 18 16:38:12 2014 +0100
CAR_GLOBAL: Define section details once
Improve clang compatibility by dropping an opaque hack
The section attribute was only ever meant for specifying section names, not their properties - otherwise they would have provided section(name,attribute,class) instead of only section(name).
The hack to add attribute and class to the name, and commenting out the "real" definitions inserted by the compiler (see the terminating "#"), is refused by clang developers.
This is a cleaner implementation in that the section is first declared with its properties, then used later-on, expecting that later conflicting declarations are ignored.
It can still break in two ways: 1. The assembler or linker could complain about a section declared in two different ways. 2. The assembler could just use the latest declaration, not the first, to determine the section's properties.
I won't sort these out unless they actually happen.
Change-Id: I4640b0fc397b301102dde6dc3ea1a078ce9edf1c Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patrick@georgi-clan.de
See http://review.coreboot.org/4716 for details.
-gerrit