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From:   Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Use address-of operator on section symbols
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
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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@infradead.org>