Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 May 2001 14:41:41 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: const __init |
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Richard Henderson wrote: > No, the problem is not with which section, but what flags that > section should have. If you put only "const" data in a section, > then the section should have SHF_WRITE clear. Conversely, if > you put writable data in a section then SHF_WRITE should be set. > > Now, one could argue that gcc should scan the entire file to > see if there are any non-constant data members added to a > particular section, and set SHF_WRITE if any such exist. > > My answer is: you would not like gcc's memory usage under these > conditions.
No, I'd argue that gcc should offer a `section_flags' attribute to be used along with the `section' attribute. Then we change the definition of __init.
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