Hi Nick, On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 9:43 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings. > For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`. GCC and Clang differ in how > they treat section names that contain \". > > The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the > preprocessor stringification operator. > > In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification > operator, we actually want the more verbose > __attribute__((__section__())). Let's add a comment about this in the code -- otherwise we/someone will convert it back without noticing. Also we could add another on `__section` itself warning about this. > Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950 Is there a link / have we opened a bug on GCC's side too? Thanks! Cheers, Miguel
