[parisc-linux] Ding dong, reserved %r8 is dead
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:27:05 -0600
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