Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:50:00 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] x86: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.
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> (x86-64 has ".eh_frame" in the DISCARD section, i386 
> apparently doesn't ever generate them, 

Modern i386 compilers should generate them too. It was merely a little
optimization to keep the vmlinux a little smaller / fast to write
in the !DEBUG_INFO case. Would make sense on i386 too.

-Andi

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