Map ".text.hot" and ".text.unlikely" input section prefixes to separate output sections.

[shankarke@gmail.com]

Hi,

Does the compiler generate .text.hot, .text.unlikely, and .text.startup
sections ? Or is this hand coded assembly ? 

If its hand coded, why not use a linker script to do the same ?

Also why is gold mapping all .text.* sections to .text ? Doesnt it make
sense to merge all of them to sections of their own and when segments are
laid out, it can select how many of these sections are part of the segment.

While I am at this, Is there an ordering restriction of how segments should
appear in the output file ? 

By ordering of segments, I mean that 

segments with RX permissions appear before WX and so on, where does the code
handle ordering of segments in the gold linker ?

Thanks

Shankar Easwaran



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