Ian, Thanks for the help. It has certainly worked. There is also a new .data1 section. Is this related to text.hot or text.unlikely by any chance. Thanks, Madhan. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ian Lance Taylor<iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >
