Map ".text.hot" and ".text.unlikely" input section prefixes to separate output sections.
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 02:04:00 GMT 2012
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:52:16PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Unfortunately it leaves us adding more special cases for section
> names, which I really dislike. Is there any happy medium?
I understand the dislike, but I don't see an alternative. We should
have spoken up before the hot/cold support was added to gcc. I also
dislike the fact that -ffunction-sections can generate section names
that match the names chosen for hot/cold sections.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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