RFC: New gas directive: .attach_to_group
Fangrui Song
i@maskray.me
Tue Sep 29 16:53:17 GMT 2020
On 2020-09-29, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
> I am planning on applying the attached patch, but I wondered if anyone
> had any comments or thoughts first.
>
> The patch adds a new gas directive: ".attach_to_group <name>" which
> can be used to attach the current section to a named group. I need
> this functionality for the annobin plugin for gcc. The plugin creates
> new note sections and it wants to place them into section groups with
> their associated code section. (So the .annobin.text section is
> grouped with the .text section, the .annobin.text.hot section is
> grouped with the .text.hot section and so on). The problem is that
> the compiler creates the .section directives for (most of) these code
> sections, and it does not add a group section to their declaration.
> So I need a way to retroactively add a section to a group. Hence the
> new directive.
>
> Tested with a wide variety of different configurations and no
> problems.
>
> Thoughts ?
Hi Nick,
Is this directive an extension to the existing feature: ?
.section .text.foo,"axG",@progbits,group
.section .rodata.foo,"a?"
If the section group intention of .annobin.text is so that .annobin.text
can be discarded if the associated .text is discarded (--gc-sections),
an alternative is SHF_LINK_ORDER
HJ has done much work on this.
There are a few additions:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-August/112732.html
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