Re: Sectioned variables?

2017-09-28 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 11:59:16 UTC, Arav Ka wrote:
GCC supports a `__attribute((section("...")))` for variables to 
put them in specific sections in the final assembly. Is there 
any way this can be achieved in D? Does GDC support this?


GDC should
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/blob/master/libphobos/libdruntime/gcc/attribute.d#L30

import gcc.attribute;

@attribute("section","foo") int bar;

is what you want I think (untested) if you are using GDC.

Re: Sectioned variables?

2017-09-28 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 11:59:16 UTC, Arav Ka wrote:
GCC supports a `__attribute((section("...")))` for variables to 
put them in specific sections in the final assembly. Is there 
any way this can be achieved in D? Does GDC support this?


LDC does, see 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/druntime/blob/ldc/src/ldc/attributes.d#L166.

Sectioned variables?

2017-09-27 Thread Arav Ka via Digitalmars-d-learn 
GCC supports a `__attribute((section("...")))` for variables to 
put them in specific sections in the final assembly. Is there any 
way this can be achieved in D? Does GDC support this?