On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:43:16PM +0000, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > We can intrduce new, ro sections or teach gcc that combining const objects into > non-ro sections is not a crime. I wonder why it currently disallows that. > (And it does it only _somethimes_, const pointers happily go into rw sections!) The pattern seems to be that const-ness of the first object placed into a particular section determines the writability of that section. If that conflicts with the requirements for a later object such as a non-const object into a section r/o gcc doesn't consider making the section r/w but throws an error instead. Ralf
