On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 16:00 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Joe Perches wrote: > > > I'd have thought that a function-wide > > > __attribute__((__string_section__(foo)) > > > wouldn't be a ton of work to implement. > > > > Maybe not. > > > > Could some future version of gcc move string constants > > in a function to a specific section marked in a manner > > similar to what Andrew described above? > > Putting string constants in a special section is an old project idea at > <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/optimize.html#putting_constants_in_special_sections>. >
That's news to me. Thanks for the link. > I still think support for that would make sense. That's good to know. Do you know of a mechanism in place to prioritize development for these optimization projects or is this a placeholder for unscheduled or unresourced TODOs? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
