progress on method-gc / mangling questions

Wed Jan 23 12:48:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
>>>>>>>>Adam> - My binaries have a lot of sections named __Utf<n> where <n> is
>Adam> some number. What are these sections? String constants?
>>Bryce> I don't know why they would be in different sections.
>>Are they in separate sections so the linker can merge identical
>constants? I thought Per wrote a patch to do this, but honestly I've
>forgotten whether it went in.
>
Possibly. GCC is supposed to merge constants automatically (by putting 
them in SHF_MERGE sections) if your linker supports it, but it doesn't 
seem to be working for our Utf8Consts. I've been meaning to investigate...
regards
Bryce.