Re: Patch to do reorder text and data sections according to a user specified sequence.

[Taras Glek <tglek at mozilla dot com>]

On 06/30/2010 04:00 PM, Sriraman Tallam wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Taras Glek<tglek@mozilla.com>  wrote:
>    
> > Hi,
> > I noticed weird "** fill"ing behavior while looking at mapfiles. Ian says
> > this is a bug, so I'm sending this to the list.
> >
> > When compiling with -ffunction-sections, many sections usually have some
> > fill after them. I'm not sure why that's needed..but a more interesting
> > problem is that once you order those sections, the remaining fill gets
> > lumped together like this:
> >      
> Does this lumping happen when you re-order with linker scripts or with
> --section-ordering-file, or both ? Could this fill be for alignment
> purposes ?
>    
I've abandoned the linker script approach, so I've only tried this with 
--section-ordering-file.

I doubt there is a purpose for 50K of fill.

Taras