https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81490
--- Comment #7 from H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor dot com> --- Thinking about this some more, this is really not an aspect of __seg_* but rather the section the symbol is placed in. An embedded system kernel, for example, could quite possibly want to access an absolute section while the kernel itself is position-independent; maybe it is even running XIP. As such perhaps a better solution would be to have attributes that control these specific parameters. A quick off-the-top-of-my-head proposal: __attribute__((absolute)) ... this symbol should be accessed using absolute address references. __attribute__((range(from,to))) ... specifies the valid address range for this symbol.
