[PATCH] RX pragma address

[Oleg Endo]

Hi,

On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 11:03 +0000, Sebastian Perta wrote:
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> Hello, 
> 
> The following patch adds a new pragma, "pragma address" for RX.
> The patch updates extend.texi and add a test case to the regression
> as well.
> For the test case I checked than test is getting picked up in gcc.log
> unfortunately for the .texi part I don't know where to look/what to
> do to
> get the
> documentation generated.
> 
> This is similar to the pragma address implemented for M32C.

Is this for some kind of legacy backwards compatibility of something?
There are ways how to achieve the same with standard C and C++ language
features ... so I was wondering what's the purpose of this?

Cheers,
Oleg