Hello Dave!
> One achitectural problem here is that GCC doesn't emit bytes. It emits
> ASCII text, in the form of assembly instructions, and it's
> not always easy to predict how they'll look by the time they've been
> through the assembler and then had relocs applied by the
> linker. (Indeed, to know what particular bytes you'd end up with you'd
> need to do everything the assembler and linker does, which
> is why we have an assembler and linker - the stuff GCC emits isn't
> directly executable...)
I know that.
So maybe my current way (compile -> find duplicates -> define duplicates
-> reuse them in fresh compile) is the easiest way to do that.
> Shouldn't this be done in the linker instead?
Well, can the linker change the instruction sequences? Ie. put a JMP
instead of other code?
Regards,
Phil
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