From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@linuxcare.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Ding dong, reserved %r8 is dead
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:27:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13062.962922425@upchuck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of 06 Jul 2000 18:03:40 EDT. <87em56or0j.fsf@linuxcare.com>
In message <87em56or0j.fsf@linuxcare.com>you write:
> One other thing - USE_CONST_SECTION is no longer defined to 0, so GCC
> will put strings and such in a .rodata section. I'm not sure why we
> were avoiding this in the past - was it a SOM-ism?
?!? No idea why that was done in your tree, it's certainly not like that
in the official GCC sources.
> I guess there's no good reason not to have read-only data in the text
> section, aside from the fact that it makes reading objdump output a
> bit confusing, so we can change it back if there is a pressing reason.
It can be problematical for PIC code sometimes.
jeff
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2000-07-06 22:03 [parisc-linux] Ding dong, reserved %r8 is dead David Huggins-Daines
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