Can someone please improve the documentation for __attribute__ __section__ ? Only functions are mentioned, but I know it works for variables too. This is the documentation page on the Web: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.1/gcc/Function-Attributes.html Apparently, there are checks in GCC against the section properties. For example, you cannot place a non-const variable in a const section, you get a "section type conflict" error message. Documentation about this would be an extra bonus. I wonder how documentation bugs are handled in this project, I couldn't find any "documentation" category in Bugzilla. Many thanks in advance.
There's already been documentation for the section attribute for variables for a long time (at least since 2001). I think it predates the addition of the docs for the section attribute for functions. Trunk already includes discussion of linker issues. There are a lot of documentation bugs in bugzilla. There are fewer volunteers working on fixing any of them.