[PATCH] D145173: Make section attribute and -ffunction-sections play nicely

Fangrui Song via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Mar 3 14:38:55 PST 2023


MaskRay added a comment.

> the programmer is indicating the function has some special purpose, and is not expected to be garbage collected.

There are use cases that GC semantics are desired. They may place the address function in a variable.
I don't think changing the behavior by default is fine. Using an option may be fine, but it'd be nicer that GCC commits to do this as well.


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