source: patches/gcc-4.2.4-PR31490-1.patch@ 2e9a7f5

Submitted By: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop @ ntlworld dot com>
Date: 2008-01-06
Initial Package Version: 4.2.2
Upstream Status: Kicking around in bugzilla, apparently nobody cares.
Origin: Dinar Temirbulatov
Description: Allows gcc-4.2 to compile a modular kernel on ppc64.  Rediffed
 to apply with -p1.

diff -Naur gcc-4.2.2/gcc/varasm.c gcc-4.2.2-PR31490/gcc/varasm.c
--- gcc-4.2.2/gcc/varasm.c      2007-09-01 16:28:30.000000000 +0100
+++ gcc-4.2.2-PR31490/gcc/varasm.c      2007-11-22 17:50:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -5452,12 +5452,14 @@
             be read-only or not, but whether the dynamic link will have to
             do something.  If so, we wish to segregate the data in order to
             minimize cache misses inside the dynamic linker.  */
-         if (reloc & targetm.asm_out.reloc_rw_mask ())
+         if (reloc & targetm.asm_out.reloc_rw_mask ()
+             && !lookup_attribute ("section", DECL_ATTRIBUTES (decl)))
            ret = reloc == 1 ? SECCAT_DATA_REL_LOCAL : SECCAT_DATA_REL;
          else
            ret = SECCAT_DATA;
        }
-      else if (reloc & targetm.asm_out.reloc_rw_mask ())
+      else if (reloc & targetm.asm_out.reloc_rw_mask ()
+              && !lookup_attribute ("section", DECL_ATTRIBUTES (decl)))
        ret = reloc == 1 ? SECCAT_DATA_REL_RO_LOCAL : SECCAT_DATA_REL_RO;
       else if (reloc || flag_merge_constants < 2)
        /* C and C++ don't allow different variables to share the same