Madhan Sadasivam <madhansivam@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Valgrind, the memory error checker does not expect > text.hot and text.unlikeley sections in binaries. > > Though everything runs fine, the symbols in these files > are not remembered by Valgrind and hence error > stack traces do not have function names for objects > in these two sections. > > The ideal solution is to make Valgrind take care of it. > A quicker way is to merge the 3 text sections as one. > i.e merge text.hot and text.unlikeley into one big ".text" > > Is this a sensible thing to do. > Is it possible to do this with any of the binutils tools. You can modify the linker script (printed by ld --verbose) to put .text.hot* and .text.unlikely* into the .text section. For more details see the GNU linker documentation. Note that the GNU linker is not part of gcc, it is part of the GNU binutils, a separate project. Ian
