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Re: why the difference of two global pointers is not a constant?

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Rafael Espíndola <rafael dot espindola at gmail dot com>
Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:49:44 -0700
Subject: Re: why the difference of two global pointers is not a constant?
References: <564d96fb0607241330l6403bdf5h9bcd64630ab6a5fe@mail.gmail.com> <m3y7ui1u9j.fsf@zeus.integrable-solutions.net> <564d96fb0607250500j759acf18h991104d02a425c4c@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 25, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Rafael Espíndola wrote:

In the particular case of two static functions or two static global
pointers, it is possible for the compiler to compute it. Isn't it? I
think that the linker will reorder the sections, but not the functions
inside a section.

:-) Your assumption would not be accurate for all the machines gcc targets. darwin in particular can and does such reordering.

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