GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals

— Macro: TEXT_SECTION_ASM_OP

A C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation that should precede instructions and read-only data. Normally "\t.text" is right.

— Macro: HOT_TEXT_SECTION_NAME

If defined, a C string constant for the name of the section containing most frequently executed functions of the program. If not defined, GCC will provide a default definition if the target supports named sections.

— Macro: UNLIKELY_EXECUTED_TEXT_SECTION_NAME

If defined, a C string constant for the name of the section containing unlikely executed functions in the program.

— Macro: DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP

A C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as writable initialized data. Normally "\t.data" is right.

— Macro: READONLY_DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP

A C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as read-only initialized data.

— Macro: READONLY_DATA_SECTION

A macro naming a function to call to switch to the proper section for read-only data. The default is to use READONLY_DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP if defined, else fall back to text_section.

The most common definition will be data_section, if the target does not have a special read-only data section, and does not put data in the text section.

— Macro: BSS_SECTION_ASM_OP

If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as uninitialized global data. If not defined, and neither ASM_OUTPUT_BSS nor ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_BSS are defined, uninitialized global data will be output in the data section if -fno-common is passed, otherwise ASM_OUTPUT_COMMON will be used.

— Macro: INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP

If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as initialization code. If not defined, GCC will assume such a section does not exist.

— Macro: FINI_SECTION_ASM_OP

If defined, a C expression whose value is a string, including spacing, containing the assembler operation to identify the following data as finalization code. If not defined, GCC will assume such a section does not exist.

— Macro: CRT_CALL_STATIC_FUNCTION (section_op, function)

If defined, an ASM statement that switches to a different section via section_op, calls function, and switches back to the text section. This is used in crtstuff.c if INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP or FINI_SECTION_ASM_OP to calls to initialization and finalization functions from the init and fini sections. By default, this macro uses a simple function call. Some ports need hand-crafted assembly code to avoid dependencies on registers initialized in the function prologue or to ensure that constant pools don't end up too far way in the text section.

— Macro: FORCE_CODE_SECTION_ALIGN

If defined, an ASM statement that aligns a code section to some arbitrary boundary. This is used to force all fragments of the .init and .fini sections to have to same alignment and thus prevent the linker from having to add any padding.

— Macro: EXTRA_SECTIONS

A list of names for sections other than the standard two, which are in_text and in_data. You need not define this macro on a system with no other sections (that GCC needs to use).

— Macro: EXTRA_SECTION_FUNCTIONS

One or more functions to be defined in varasm.c. These functions should do jobs analogous to those of text_section and data_section, for your additional sections. Do not define this macro if you do not define EXTRA_SECTIONS.

— Macro: JUMP_TABLES_IN_TEXT_SECTION

Define this macro to be an expression with a nonzero value if jump tables (for tablejump insns) should be output in the text section, along with the assembler instructions. Otherwise, the readonly data section is used.

This macro is irrelevant if there is no separate readonly data section.

— Target Hook: void TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION (tree exp, int reloc, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT align)

Switches to the appropriate section for output of exp. You can assume that exp is either a VAR_DECL node or a constant of some sort. reloc indicates whether the initial value of exp requires link-time relocations. Bit 0 is set when variable contains local relocations only, while bit 1 is set for global relocations. Select the section by calling data_section or one of the alternatives for other sections. align is the constant alignment in bits.

The default version of this function takes care of putting read-only variables in readonly_data_section.

See also USE_SELECT_SECTION_FOR_FUNCTIONS.

— Macro: USE_SELECT_SECTION_FOR_FUNCTIONS

Define this macro if you wish TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION to be called for FUNCTION_DECLs as well as for variables and constants.

In the case of a FUNCTION_DECL, reloc will be zero if the function has been determined to be likely to be called, and nonzero if it is unlikely to be called.

— Target Hook: void TARGET_ASM_UNIQUE_SECTION (tree decl, int reloc)

Build up a unique section name, expressed as a STRING_CST node, and assign it to `DECL_SECTION_NAME (decl)'. As with TARGET_ASM_SELECT_SECTION, reloc indicates whether the initial value of exp requires link-time relocations.

The default version of this function appends the symbol name to the ELF section name that would normally be used for the symbol. For example, the function foo would be placed in .text.foo. Whatever the actual target object format, this is often good enough.

— Target Hook: void TARGET_ASM_FUNCTION_RODATA_SECTION (tree decl)

Switches to a readonly data section associated with `DECL_SECTION_NAME (decl)'. The default version of this function switches to .gnu.linkonce.r.name section if function's section is .gnu.linkonce.t.name, to .rodata.name if function is in .text.name section and otherwise switches to the normal readonly data section.

— Target Hook: void TARGET_ASM_SELECT_RTX_SECTION (enum machine_mode mode, rtx x, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT align)

Switches to the appropriate section for output of constant pool entry x in mode. You can assume that x is some kind of constant in RTL. The argument mode is redundant except in the case of a const_int rtx. Select the section by calling readonly_data_section or one of the alternatives for other sections. align is the constant alignment in bits.

The default version of this function takes care of putting symbolic constants in flag_pic mode in data_section and everything else in readonly_data_section.

— Target Hook: void TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO (tree decl, rtx rtl, int new_decl_p)

Define this hook if references to a symbol or a constant must be treated differently depending on something about the variable or function named by the symbol (such as what section it is in).

The hook is executed immediately after rtl has been created for decl, which may be a variable or function declaration or an entry in the constant pool. In either case, rtl is the rtl in question. Do not use DECL_RTL (decl) in this hook; that field may not have been initialized yet.

In the case of a constant, it is safe to assume that the rtl is a mem whose address is a symbol_ref. Most decls will also have this form, but that is not guaranteed. Global register variables, for instance, will have a reg for their rtl. (Normally the right thing to do with such unusual rtl is leave it alone.)

The new_decl_p argument will be true if this is the first time that TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO has been invoked on this decl. It will be false for subsequent invocations, which will happen for duplicate declarations. Whether or not anything must be done for the duplicate declaration depends on whether the hook examines DECL_ATTRIBUTES. new_decl_p is always true when the hook is called for a constant.

The usual thing for this hook to do is to record flags in the symbol_ref, using SYMBOL_REF_FLAG or SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS. Historically, the name string was modified if it was necessary to encode more than one bit of information, but this practice is now discouraged; use SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS.

The default definition of this hook, default_encode_section_info in varasm.c, sets a number of commonly-useful bits in SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS. Check whether the default does what you need before overriding it.

— Target Hook: const char *TARGET_STRIP_NAME_ENCODING (const char *name)

Decode name and return the real name part, sans the characters that TARGET_ENCODE_SECTION_INFO may have added.

— Target Hook: bool TARGET_IN_SMALL_DATA_P (tree exp)

Returns true if exp should be placed into a “small data” section. The default version of this hook always returns false.

— Variable: Target Hook bool TARGET_HAVE_SRODATA_SECTION

Contains the value true if the target places read-only “small data” into a separate section. The default value is false.

— Target Hook: bool TARGET_BINDS_LOCAL_P (tree exp)

Returns true if exp names an object for which name resolution rules must resolve to the current “module” (dynamic shared library or executable image).

The default version of this hook implements the name resolution rules for ELF, which has a looser model of global name binding than other currently supported object file formats.

— Variable: Target Hook bool TARGET_HAVE_TLS

Contains the value true if the target supports thread-local storage. The default value is false.