Declaration of intrcnt and eintrcnt in amd64/amd64/support.S
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Mon Jun 8 05:33:50 UTC 2009
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 09:09:41PM -0700, Tseng, Kuo-Lang wrote:
> Kostik Belousov wrote on Friday, June 05, 2009 1:27 PM:
> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:01:50AM -0700, Tseng, Kuo-Lang wrote:
> >> Bruce Evans wrote on Friday, June 05, 2009 1:06 AM:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Tseng, Kuo-Lang wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Currently these two variables are stored in the .text section
> >>>> because they are declared without a .data directive. Is there any
> >>>> reason why they are not declared with .data directive? Or this is
> >>>> missing?
> >>>
> >>> This is just a bug, as is formatting mail for 220-column terminals.
> >>> It is missing in the reference i386 version which has a .data
> >>> directive before some other variables that don't exist on amd64.
> >>> Apparently, these variables only work because the text section is
> >>> not write protected. Write protection of the text section was lost
> >>> long ago on i386.
> >>>
> >>> intrnames and eintrnames are also in the text section.
> >>>
> >>> Bruce
> >>
> >> Can we fix it soon?
> >
> > See r193535.
>
> Is this a bug id? Can someone please forward me the link to the database?
>
It's the subversion revision number.
--
Steve
More information about the freebsd-amd64
mailing list