Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:00:20 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Immediate Values x86 Optimization Declare Discarded Instruction |
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Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > nitpicking : > >> .section __discard,"a",@progbits > > could we simply declare a > > .section __discard,"",@progbits instead ? > > I think this should remove the need to tweak the linker script, since > the section would not be allocated. >
The allocation flag is a loader property, not a linker property. It would still be manifest in the vmlinux file; I think this is undesirable. Perhaps not a big deal, but neither is adding a /DISCARD/ statement to the linker script:
/DISCARD/ : { *(__discard) }
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