cross compile and gcc question

[Kevin Buettner]

On Feb 13,  2:45pm, Stephen Smith wrote:

> I am working on an embedded app (target=motorola-power-pc
> host=686-cygwin-pe) and under older gcc the the vtables were part of
> the text segment.
> 
> Now they have moved.  Is there a way to have the linker (or
> compiler) put them back in that segment.  If I read my map file and
> used the objdump --full-contents correctly, it appears to be in the
> data segment.
> 
> I prefer not to change the program loader also.

I don't know the answer to this - at least not without a considerable
amount of digging.  You might want to send this question to
binutils@sources.redhat.com.  Someone on that list will surely know
the answer.