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Date:   Mon, 6 May 2019 09:48:24 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] implement DYNAMIC_DEBUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
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* Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:

> I _am_ bending the C rules a bit with the "extern some_var; asm 
> volatile(".section some_section\nsome_var: blabla");". I should 
> probably ask on the gcc list whether this way of defining a local 
> symbol in inline assembly and referring to it from C is supposed to 
> work, or it just happens to work by chance.

Doing that would be rather useful I think.

Thanks,

	Ingo