On 30 May 2016 at 16:48, Saleem Abdulrasool <compn...@compnerd.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Rafael Espíndola > <rafael.espind...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Why .rodata.cfstring? Which linker treats that specially? > > > Its mimicking the fact that the CF macros tried to place the structures in > their own section. This would technically allow a linker to coalesce the > CFString structures (though, AFAIK, none do atm ... perhaps lld should be > the first!). In the worst case, this will just get collapsed into the > .rodata section, so its no worse off.
BTW, if this is to be coalesced, I think the ELF way to do it would be to mark the section SHF_MERGE and propose a new SHF_CFSTRING section flag. Cheers, Rafael _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
