[llvm-dev] Using '__attribute__((section("name")))' for inline assembly injection

Tobias Edler von Koch via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Oct 5 13:29:05 PDT 2016


On 10/05/2016 12:44 PM, Hal Finkel via llvm-dev wrote:
> Would it be useful for Clang to warn about section names with unusual 
> characters?

It's tricky to define 'unusual' though. I'd prefer warnings for newline 
characters only, to be safe.

We have customers embedding the file name in section names... on Windows 
this gets you lovely names like ".bla.D:\Some\Path\xyz.cpp", which are 
unusual but perfectly fine.

Tobias

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