On Thu, 12 May 2005, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
If I recall correctly the data has to be properly aligned for correct access under SPARC else you might see bus-error run time errors..
Correct, a 4 byte int has to be align on a 4 byte boundary.
However, a 1 byte int can (I believe) be aligned on a byte boundary, but there is a performance penalty in accessing it if it is not 4 byte aligned.
Thus if you sorted the rodata items by size, you could pack all the 1 byte items together, then all the two byte items align on a two byte boundary, etc.
Unfortunately the only thing I can find in ld is a script option to *(SORT(.rodata.*)) the item names. No quite what I want, and --sort-common, which seems to do nothing to either the rodata or bss segments.
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