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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GCC-4.0.2 20050811: should GCC consider inlining functions in between different sections?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <114d26722def3edd3510fa22e26923fa@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050812120551.89295.qmail@web26902.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

>   The question is in fact: what is a section for GCC? Is it just a way 
> to
>  group functions together to improve memory cache efficiency; or is the
>  GCC user authorised to use sections to forbid access to some functions
>  at link time?

For user-declared ("attribute") sections, GCC just outputs
the necessary assembler magic, and that's it.  Anything else
is handled by your binary format tools, if at all.


Segher

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-16  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-12 10:40 Etienne Lorrain
2005-08-12 11:07 ` Richard Guenther
2005-08-12 12:06   ` Etienne Lorrain
2005-08-12 17:10     ` Mike Stump
2005-08-12 17:27       ` Jan Hubicka
2005-08-16  8:15     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]

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