Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] ColdFire: Assign version_string as data section in start.S

In message 1206531845-30730-1-git-send-email-Tsi-Chung.Liew@freescale.com you wrote:

The compiler does not place the .ascii in start.S to data section, instead it put in under text section. This is an issue where it

This is intentional on most architectures. What exactly is your problem?

never gets notice and causes error until an update for tools/setlocalversion has been applied. A label of .data before .globl version_string will force to put under data section.

Can you please explain which exact bug this is supposed to fix?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk