module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module versions
On m68k natural alignment is 2-byte boundary but we are trying to align structures in __modver section on sizeof(void *) boundary. This causes trouble when we try to access elements in this section in array-like fashion when create "version" attributes for built-in modules. Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in different situations. The only solution that seems to work reliably is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in question and put those pointers in the special section. Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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