Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH v2 1/6] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections.

[Tim A. <tabbott@MIT.EDU>]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> > +#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA	.section ".data.page_aligned", "aw", @progbits
> > +#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS	.section ".bss.page_aligned", "aw", @nobits
> 
> It is my understanding that the linker will automatically
> assume nobits for section names starting with .bss and likewise
> progbits for section names starting with .data - so we can leave them out?

I believe that is correct.

	-Tim Abbott