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Re: New .rodata section.
- From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford at googlemail dot com>
- To: Umesh Kalappa <umesh dot kalappa0 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "gcc\ at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:10:23 +0000
- Subject: Re: New .rodata section.
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Umesh Kalappa <umesh.kalappa0@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi All ,
>
> We are porting gcc4.8.1 to the new target and we created the new
> .rodata section w.r.t flags by get_unnamed_section() .
>
> Now we need to associate the global %object data of type .word or
> .byte to the created .rodata section and also we need to emit the
> .rodata section in the asm file .
>
> Anyone can share their experice or some inputs or reference for the
> same will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you for the patience.
I'm not sure what the properties of this new section are compared to
plain .rodata, but you can select a section using hooks like
TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION.
Thanks,
Richard