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Re: How to stop --gc-sections nukeing all sections?
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 06:57:34PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> The important thing seems to be to have an exception table which maps
> text addresses to fixup addresses, and which permits fast lookup by
> text address. Presumably it is desirable to keep this table out of
> line of the main code, and it is desirable to not have to initialize
> it at boot time.
Yep. If I'd had function reordering in mind at the time,
I'd just sort the section after linking in the binary.
Something to ponder when such a tool actually exists. I
don't think section gc will actually do much, and isn't
worth worrying about.
r~