Hello, Ping # 2 for http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-04/msg00833.html
Thanks in advance, Olivier (sorry for a possible duplicate or empty version of that message a few minutes ago) On Apr 13, 2012, at 15:06 , Olivier Hainque wrote: > For several years now, Ada has support for a "Persistent_BSS" pragma > that let users place data in a ".persistent.bss" section. This section: > > - needs to be treated as a bss section by the compiler (in particular, > to set flags that will prevent use of space in executable files) > > - can be treated specially by run-time loaders, not resetting to all > zeroes on application warm-restarts. > > This patch simply adds ".persistent.bss" to the list of section names > that GCC identifies a bss sections. ... > * varasm.c (default_section_type_flags): Flag .persistent.bss > sections as SECTION_BSS. > > <pbss.dif>
