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To: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@linuxcare.com>
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:27:05 -0600
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From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
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  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