In message <20030729235438.GA5836@thistledown.com.au>, you write: 

-> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:16:35AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
-> 
-> > 	see PR 22277.  some of integer variables are put into .text region
-> > 	and causes SEGV (because .text section is not writable), i guess
-> > 	this is because of __RCSID().  any clues on how to solve this?
-> > 	i'll disable __RCSID() for now.
-> 
-> It looks like all the
-> 
-> 	.section foo ; .... ; .text
-> 
-> in <sys/cdefs*.h> (or at least <sys/cdefs_elf.h>) should be
-> 
-> 	.pushsection foo ; .... ; .popsection
-> 
-> Doing this ends up with:
-> 
-> 	Disassembly of section .data:
-> 		...
-> 	00000024 <incstackp>:
-> 	  24:   00 00                   add    %al,(%eax)
-> 		...
-> 
-> Anyone more familiar with binutils care to comment?

Jason and I had talked about this a while back and I thought there were
some possibly negative repercussions of .pushsection and .popsection, so
when I fixed this in some work code that uses the RCSID macros, I simply
used .previous.  I can't recall what the exact issue with the .push/.pop
was, though.

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@pobox.com
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