Re: [PATCH] Add __discard section to x86

2007-11-14 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Add a __discard sectionto the linker script. Code produced in this section will not be put in the vmlinux file. This is useful when we have to calculate the size of an instruction before actually declaring it (for alignment purposes for instance). This is used by the

Re: [PATCH] Add __discard section to x86

2007-11-14 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Add a __discard sectionto the linker script. Code produced in this section will not be put in the vmlinux file. This is useful when we have to calculate the size of an instruction before actually declaring it (for alignment purposes for instance). This is used by the