https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92902
--- Comment #18 from Jean-Christophe Dubois <gcc at tribudubois dot net> --- (In reply to Mikael Pettersson from comment #17) > My though reading this is that most RICSs have problems synthesizing large > literals, so putting a jump table in .text might increase the likelihood of > its address being synthesizable with a PC + offset addressing mode. Putting > it in .rodata would almost certainly require you to indirect through the GOT > to address it. That said, if the user wants .text to be execute-only, then > the jump table ought to land in .rodata. As far as I can say with the assembly code generated today for SPARC32, the jump tables could be anywhere in memory (4GB address space) with the exact same code. I don't think it would trigger additional indirection. It might be different for other architecture.
