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On 18 Feb 2016 at 12:34, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> However, that does not fix the issue Kees is trying to solve, where a
> .rodata section is emitted with the "x" bit set, which causes the
> linker to complain:
> 
> /tmp/cc50ffWw.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cc50ffWw.s:2: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for
> .rodata.text

in that case why not use a top-level asm statement to set the section
and its attributes (and compile the file with fno-toplevel-reorder)?