drivers: Remove dependency on linker implementation specific behaviour

[libsigrok.git] / src / drivers.c

diff --git a/src/drivers.c b/src/drivers.c
index c6165b6360c71778b63b5ffcf7b656a6b06a72a2..7641e24d0d31f4cca76a094fbafffebfef2ebc7f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/drivers.c
+++ b/src/drivers.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2016 Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
  * Copyright (C) 2016 Aurelien Jacobs <aurel@gnuage.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se>
  *
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -26,17 +27,12 @@
 /*
  * sr_driver_list is a special section contains pointers to all the hardware
  * drivers built into the library. The __start and __stop symbols are
- * auto-generated by the linker (OSX needs a little help) and point to the start
- * and end of the section. They are used to iterate over the list of all
- * drivers.
+ * created from driver_list_start.c and driver_list_stop.c, and point to the
+ * start and end of the section. They are used to iterate over the list of
+ * all drivers.
  */
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-extern struct sr_dev_driver *__start_sr_driver_list __asm("section$start$__DATA$__sr_driver_list");
-extern struct sr_dev_driver *__stop_sr_driver_list __asm("section$end$__DATA$__sr_driver_list");
-#else
-extern struct sr_dev_driver *__start_sr_driver_list;
-extern struct sr_dev_driver *__stop_sr_driver_list;
-#endif
+SR_PRIV extern const struct sr_dev_driver *sr_driver_list__start[];
+SR_PRIV extern const struct sr_dev_driver *sr_driver_list__stop[];
 
 /** @private
  * Initialize the driver list in a fresh libsigrok context.
@@ -49,8 +45,8 @@ SR_API void sr_drivers_init(struct sr_context *ctx)
 
        array = g_array_new(TRUE, FALSE, sizeof(struct sr_dev_driver *));
 #ifdef HAVE_DRIVERS
-       for (struct sr_dev_driver **drivers = &__start_sr_driver_list;
-            drivers < &__stop_sr_driver_list; drivers++)
+       for (const struct sr_dev_driver **drivers = sr_driver_list__start + 1;
+            drivers < sr_driver_list__stop; drivers++)
                g_array_append_val(array, *drivers);
 #endif
        ctx->driver_list = (struct sr_dev_driver **)array->data;