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Nick Desaulniers authored
The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
they treat section names that contain \".

The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the preprocessor
stringification operator.

In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
operator, we actually want the more verbose
__attribute__((__section__())).

Fixes: commit e04462fb ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200929194318.548707-1-ndesaulniers@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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