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Re: PATCH: Use COMDAT section group instead of gnu.linkonce


"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:52:54AM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
>> On Monday, May 3, 2004, at 10:46 PM, H. J. Lu wrote:
>> >Should we start moving toward COMDAT section group? It will help fix
>> >DWARF2 problems.
>> 
>> We are in favor of this.  Our platform doesn't yet have group COMDAT, 
>> but, that is the way we know we need to go.  Thanks.
>
> This patch enables COMDAT group. It even works with
>
> const int foo __attribute__((section(".gnu.linkonce.r.foo")));
>
> There are no regressions on ia32, ia64 and x86-64. You just need to
> apply
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-05/msg00022.html
>
> on top of the current binutils in CVS.

Uh, surely there is a better way to do this than a long chain of
strcmp() operations on the linkonce section name?

zw


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