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RE: [Patch,AVR]: PR18145: do_copy_data & do_clear_bss only if needed
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Georg-Johann Lay [mailto:avr@gjlay.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:13 PM
> To: Weddington, Eric
> Cc: Richard Henderson; gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org; Denis Chertykov; Anatoly
> Sokolov
> Subject: Re: [Patch,AVR]: PR18145: do_copy_data & do_clear_bss only if
> needed
>
> Weddington, Eric schrieb:
> >
> Eric, you don't see .rodata because of avr.c:avr_asm_init_sections
> readonly_data_section = data_section;
> To see .rodata give -fdata-sections for const not in progmem.
Ah, ok. Hardly any real world user specifies -fdata-sections. They might do -ffunction-sections though.
> The only thing I am a bit uncomfortable with is that there is no command
> line option to unconditionally reference the __do's.
Why would a user want to do that? Unless of course your patch is buggy. ;-)
Eric Weddington