[PATCH] Add idle wait support for 44x platforms

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Apr 8 12:44:15 EST 2008


On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 04:41:28 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > 
> > > Actually, a static assignment to 0 has not caused the symbol to end up
> > > in .data for many gcc versions, it always goes into .bss now unless you
> > > assign it a value other than 0 or use explicit section attributes.
> > 
> > IIRC, gcc 3.2 is still supported and it didn't do that.  Old toolchains
> > still exist.
> 
> Ok, I thought it was before 3.2. The oldest version I had around was
> gcc-3.3 and that had the new behaviour.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-3.3/changes.html

gcc 3.3.1 it seems.  I thought I included that in the original reply,
but it's late and I suck :).

josh



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