The _k_pipe_list was a static array generated by sysgen,
where it containing all pre-defined pipes from MDEF file.
To support private pipe objects (aka, defining pipes within
source files), the pipe list has to accommodate pipes that
are not only processed through sysgen, but also those defined
within source files.
This is done by creating a new section in binary, and all pipe
pointers go into this section. By doing this, the pipe list
can still be manipulated as an array. The reason behind
putting the pointers to pipe, instead of the pipe objects
themselves, is that some compiler/linker may pad the large pipe
struct. For example, compiling under gcc and march=i686 pads
the struct to 32-byte alignment (march=atom to 64-byte alignment).
This causes issue with sizeof() and pointer arithmetic because
they have no idea about the padding. So use pointers here to
prevent padding.
Change-Id: I6d3b75614c4d8760c037a5c26746410d4e4b17cb
Signed-off-by: Daniel Leung <daniel.leung@intel.com>
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