[RFC] PowerPC select_section / unique_section

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:49:11PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	It is not obvious that GCC should behave differently for shared
> libraries and regular object files when targeting ABI_AIX. 

I don't know how to make it any more obvious to you.  Do you disagree
with:

1) Current mainline powerpc64-linux gcc, in the face of inlining and
   const function folding optimizations, is broken when building
   shared libraries.

2) Therefore these optimizations must be turned off when building
   shared libraries.

3) If shared and regular objects are to be built the same, then these
   optimizations must be turned off for regular objects too.

You may make the decision that AIX gcc doesn't need these
optimizations, but please don't hobble PowerPC64 Linux.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre