GCC-4.0.2 20050811: should GCC consider inlining functions in between different sections?

[Segher Boessenkool]

>   The question is in fact: what is a section for GCC? Is it just a way 
> to
>  group functions together to improve memory cache efficiency; or is the
>  GCC user authorised to use sections to forbid access to some functions
>  at link time?

For user-declared ("attribute") sections, GCC just outputs
the necessary assembler magic, and that's it.  Anything else
is handled by your binary format tools, if at all.


Segher