Re: String literals in __init functions

From: Joseph Myers
Date: Thu Apr 02 2015 - 12:00:46 EST


On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Joe Perches wrote:

> > I'd have thought that a function-wide
> > __attribute__((__string_section__(foo))
> > wouldn't be a ton of work to implement.
>
> Maybe not.
>
> Could some future version of gcc move string constants
> in a function to a specific section marked in a manner
> similar to what Andrew described above?

Putting string constants in a special section is an old project idea at
<http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/optimize.html#putting_constants_in_special_sections>.
I still think support for that would make sense.

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Joseph S. Myers
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