On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > OK, then I think your best path forward will be to modify the compiler > to enhance that option to work with exception handling. I don't know > of any fundamental reason why exception handling is incompatible with > separate sections for hot and cold code, though it will likely require > a modification to the way the exception frame information is generated > (this is, as it happens, the same CFI information that you are getting > errors on with your asm approach). That would be quite a challenge for me as I have zero experience with the gcc codebase. > Or, of course, you can use different functions for the cold code, > using the section attribute to put them in a different section, if > that is workable. That won't enable me to use it without extensive modifications to the current code base. Thanks, Saul
