------- Comment #1 from pinskia at gmail dot com 2008-09-13 09:49 ------- Subject: Re: New: attribute section is not working with constant strings
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:04 AM, "nm127 at freemail dot hu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > With the __attribute__ __section__ it is possible to allocate > variables to > different section than the default ( > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html ). In > case of the > following source code I would achieve to allocate both "foo bar" and > "Hello > World!" strings into the .xxx_section section: > > char x[] __attribute__ ((__section__(".xxx_section"))) = "foo bar"; > char* y __attribute__ ((__section__(".xxx_section"))) = "Hello > World!"; > > int main() { > return 0; > } > > However, with gcc version 4.3.1 (Debian 4.3.1-9) only the "foo bar" > string is > stored in .xxx_section: > > $ objdump -s a.out > > a.out: file format elf32-i386 > [...] > Contents of section .rodata: > 8048448 03000000 01000200 48656c6c 6f20576f ........Hello Wo > 8048458 726c6421 00 rld!. > [...] > Contents of section .xxx_section: > 8049568 666f6f20 62617200 50840408 foo bar.P... > > > -- > Summary: attribute section is not working with constant > strings > Product: gcc > Version: unknown > Status: UNCONFIRMED > Severity: normal > Priority: P3 > Component: c > AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org > ReportedBy: nm127 at freemail dot hu > GCC build triplet: 4.3.1 > GCC target triplet: i486-linux-gnu > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37506 > -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37506