It might be helpful to look for static data by dumping symbol tables: objdump --demangle -t obj/debug/ia32/assembler-ia32.o | grep '\.bss\|\.data\|\.rodata' 00000000 l d .data 00000000 .data 00000000 l d .bss 00000000 .bss 00000000 l d .rodata 00000000 .rodata 00000ae8 l O .rodata 00000004 v8::internal::esp 00000afc l O .rodata 00000004 v8::internal::ebp 00000ae4 l O .rodata 00000004 v8::internal::eax 00000aec l O .rodata 00000004 v8::internal::edi 00000af0 l O .rodata 00000004 v8::internal::edx 00000af4 l O .rodata 00000004 v8::internal::ecx 00000af8 l O .rodata 00000004 v8::internal::ebx 00000b00 l O .rodata 00000004 v8::internal::esi 00000000 g O .bss 00000008 .hidden v8::internal::CpuFeatures::supported_ 00000008 g O .bss 00000008 .hidden v8::internal::CpuFeatures::enabled_ 00000018 g O .bss 00000004 .hidden v8::internal::Assembler::spare_buffer_ 00000010 g O .bss 00000008 .hidden v8::internal::CpuFeatures::found_by_runtime_probing_ 00000ae0 g O .rodata 00000004 .hidden v8::internal::RelocInfo::kApplyMask
Some (all?) static data ought to appear in the .bss and .data sections of object files. For good measure, we'll throw in .rodata (for constants). The compiler will still stuff some constants into non-read-only sections if it is unable to determine their value at compile-time (this seems to be happening in the ARM assembler). Luke -- v8-dev mailing list v8-dev@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev
