Re: section placement q

[Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 07:09:18PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> A much more thorough approach, without the danger and still with
> sharing, is to have the linker optimise, à la -ffunction-sections
> -fdata-sections.  But extend the linker's gc-sections to do something
> like: put section .S in .init.S unless anybody from outside .init*
> references the section.

Putting this kind of policy in the linker proper would be silly.
You're talking about exactly one application that wants this sort
of .init behaviour.

It wouldn't be too hard, however, to build a tool that examined
object files and generated a link script to do exactly what you want.


r~