Read-only data handling: a proposal

[Andreas Schwab]

Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

|>> The PC-rel stuff is useful, but the number of architectures where such tricks
|>> help are diminishing. 

|>   E.g., MC680x0, but AFAIK gas is not capable of such optimization yet.

It is, but it obviously can't do it if the reference is to a different
section.  Thus it will only work if constants are put in the text section
(a.out), not the rodata section (ELF).

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