Re: gdb question

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:30:26PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> 
> >Hmm, explicitly initializing acpi_force_load in acpi.c seems to do
> >the trick for me.
> >
> >nm shows:
> >before:
> >ffffffff80df0098 B acpi_force_load
> >after:
> >ffffffff80d135e0 D acpi_force_load
> 
> I didn't want to pollute my source tree...  And I only want to force
> it for this one machine (out of 7).
> 

The point I was trying to make was in the nm output.
Without 'int acpi_force_load = 0;' instead of 'int acpi_force_load;'
acpi_force_load is placed either in the .bss rather than .data section.

        Jonathan Kollasch