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[Bug target/81490] x86: Handling of symbol ranges for __seg_fs/__seg_gs
- From: "hpa at zytor dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 04:12:13 +0000
- Subject: [Bug target/81490] x86: Handling of symbol ranges for __seg_fs/__seg_gs
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- References: <bug-81490-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81490
--- Comment #7 from H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor dot com> ---
Thinking about this some more, this is really not an aspect of __seg_* but
rather the section the symbol is placed in. An embedded system kernel, for
example, could quite possibly want to access an absolute section while the
kernel itself is position-independent; maybe it is even running XIP.
As such perhaps a better solution would be to have attributes that control
these specific parameters. A quick off-the-top-of-my-head proposal:
__attribute__((absolute))
... this symbol should be accessed using absolute address references.
__attribute__((range(from,to)))
... specifies the valid address range for this symbol.