[PATCH] D28481: Respect section groups in GC

[Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-commits]

Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> writes:
> Another possibility would be to introduce a section flag that means that a
> section should *not* be treated as a GC root. Then ASan can emit a
> R_X86_64_NONE relocation to introduce a dependency from the global section
> to the metadata section. We could even hypothetically teach LLVM to put
> that flag on .init_array sections for constructors that are known not to
> have side effects.

I like it :-)

Cheers,
Rafael