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From: alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
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Subject: Re: __attribute__((section))
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 14:39:15 GMT
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While we're at it, if we can put things easily into different
sections, wouldn't that provide a nice easy method of locking memory
for hardware interrupt handlers? Stick everything in a '.lock'
section, with sentinel labels in it so that a "lock_everything()" call
could lock the entire (guaranteed contiguous) section?

BTW, is there a better way of getting the extent of a section? Some
trickery with the linker ADDR and SIZE commands?

Regards,


ABW
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I have become... Comfortably numb...

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