On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, Jozef Lawrynowicz wrote: > I personally do not see the problem with the .retain attribute, however > if it is going to be a barrier to getting the functionality committed, I > am happy to change it, since I really just want the functionality in > upstream sources. > > If a global maintainer would comment on whether any of the proposed > approaches are acceptable, then I will try to block out time from other > deadlines so I can work on the fixups and submit a patch in time for the > GCC 11 freeze. > > Thanks, > Jozef
I'm not much more than a random voice, but an assembly directive that specifies the symbol (IIUC your .retain directive) to adjust a symbol attribute sounds cleaner to me, than requiring gcc to know that this requires it to adjust what it knows about section flags (again, IIUC). brgds, H-P
