[PATCH] powerpc/boot: Use address-of operator on section symbols

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 12:22:28 AEST 2020


Hi Geoff,

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 06:18:48PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> On 6/23/20 8:59 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are
> > just addresses.  Using the address of operator silences the warning
> > and does not change the resulting assembly with either clang/ld.lld
> > or gcc/ld (tested with diff + objdump -Dr).
> 
> Thanks for your patch.  I tested this patch applied to v5.8-rc2 on a
> PS3 and it seems OK.
> 
> Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>

Thanks a lot for the quick response and testing, I really appreciate it!

Cheers,
Nathan


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