On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:27 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > I think Danny has a 75% implementation based on hashing the RTL for a > section and using that to select the COMDAT section signature. Or the > hashing can be done in the linker, but it still needs compiler help to > know when it is permissible.
For code sections (I assume read-only), isn't the linker always able to merge identical ones? What can the compiler do better than the linker? Just curious, Laurent
