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Re: Map ".text.hot" and ".text.unlikely" input section prefixes to separate output sections.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24201
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H.J.