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Re: Adding a new attribute to GCC

From: "Nihal D'Cunha" <nihal dot dcunha at gmail dot com>
To: "Mike Stump" <mrs at apple dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 22:48:14 -0400
Subject: Re: Adding a new attribute to GCC
References: <431a97380605021929n47028784vdd560ced854b528f@mail.gmail.com> <B5A32047-AA00-487C-880E-916832089DF7@apple.com>

The new attribute will need to create a new section in the
ELF format  object file, and so need to be recognized by the
linker, loader etc.

I am unable to find any good documentation regarding the same.

Do you have any pointers ?

On 5/2/06, Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> wrote:

On May 2, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Nihal D'Cunha wrote:
> I am interested in adding a new attribute to GCC.

> Any pointers to books/documents/websites that
> will help in this regard will be much appreciated.

Sure, figure out what existing attribute yours is most like, search
for that in the code, see how it is implemented and copy it.

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