[LLVMdev] funny llvm bug

[Eric Christopher]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Reed Kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
> On 04/19/2013 12:43 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:47:28AM -0700, reed kotler wrote:
>>>
>>> The clean solution is probably to add two additional function
>>> attributes to cover these additional pieces, namely "ax" and
>>> @progbits.
>>
>>
>> Extend the section attribute to allow additional parameters?
>>
>> Joerg
>>
> The idea would be to create additional function attributes.
> I have not spent time thinking this through yet.
>
> section_flags("flags")
> section_type("type")
> others....
>

This sounds awful.

> so then
>
> void x(int i) __attributes__((section("mysection"), section_flags("aw"),
> section_type("@progbits")) ;
>
> or maybe extend the syntax of section
>
> section(<name> [<section_flags>] [,<type>])
>

This not so much.

-eric