Am Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:07:04 +0000 schrieb "Timo Sintonen" <t.sinto...@luukku.com>:
> I have been looking at object files to see if I can reduce the > memory usage for minimum systems. There are two things I have > noticed: > > 1. In the data segment there is some source code as ascii text > from a template in gcc/atomics.d . This is in the actual data > segment and not in debug info segments and goes into the data > segment of the executable. I do not see any code using this data. > Why is this in the executable and is it possible to remove it? > Strange, could you post a testcase? > 2. In the data segment there is also __init for all types. I > assume that they contain the initial values that are copied when > a new object of this type is created. Correct, it's for '.init' (there's especially __..._TypeInfo_init which is the initializer for typeinfo. I've implemented -fno-rtti in a private git branch to get rid of typeinfo) > Is this data mutable and > should it really be in data segment and not in rodata? > I think it should be in rodata.
