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Re: GCC-4.0.2 20050811: should GCC consider inlining functions in between different sections?
> On Aug 12, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Etienne Lorrain wrote:
> > I have added a command to the linker file to forbid reference from
> > one section to another:
> >NOCROSSREFS (.text .xcode);
>
> It sounds like this feature isn't compatible with inlining, -fno-
> inline I suspect is one of the few ways to `fix' it in general, that,
-fno-inline still won't suppress inlining of functions called once...
Honza
> or require that all functions be marked noinline that would otherwise
> be wrong to inline.
>
> > The question is in fact: what is a section for GCC?
>
> Anything a user wants. We don't limit the uses, so this question
> cannot, in general be answered, at best a few users could tell you
> how a few of them are using sections. For example, I would not
> expect most people to know about NOCROSSREFS.