Hi Segher, On 2 February 2015 at 01:16, Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 05:09:29PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: >> I have been fighting with a strange problem on ARM where gcc puts all >> the .rodata from a number of files lumped into a single .rodata >> section even when -fdata-sections is used. >> >> I searched and found a bug report here: >> >> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54303 >> >> which exactly describes the problem I see. > > You could try this patch. I think there were still some problems with > it, there must have been some reason I didn't submit it. Cannot have > been just laziness :-P
I tried this patch and it solved my problem - the rodata section is now split up and most of it is discarded in the link phase. I hope some form of this can make it into gcc one day soon and a suitable regression test case can be added! Thanks, Simon [snip]
