Re: section placement q

[Artur Skawina <skawina@geocities.com>]

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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> A much more thorough approach, without the danger and still with
> sharing, is to have the linker optimise, à la -ffunction-sections
> -fdata-sections.  But extend the linker's gc-sections to do something
> like: put section .S in .init.S unless anybody from outside .init*
> references the section.

void foo() __attribute__ ((section("init")) { bar("hello"); }
char *p;
void bar(char *s) {p=s;}