Re: gdb question

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:

> 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.

Ah!  I missed that.  Thanks.

Perhaps this should be changed "officially" ?




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