Re: [RFC PATCH] Readonly .eh_frame and .gcc_except_table

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:58:00AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
>   I'm thinking a more generally useful linker script enhancement might
> be better, and should be easy to implement.  How about an AUTO_PLACE
> keyword for an output section?  Allows KEEP and other input section
> flags + ordering etc., but placement relative to other output sections
> is chosen automatically by the linker.

And teach place_orphan where exactly to autoplace .eh_frame and
.gcc_except_table if they are read-only and if they are read-write?
If read-only, those two sections should be placed right as the last two
sections in the read-only segment, so that if no exceptions happen,
programs/libs will require less paging.
Similarly, if they are to be present in read-write segment, they should IMHO
stay together, not with some random other orphan rw section in between.

	Jakub