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...& code layout (neededby GHC) Hi all, Just wanted to report that I've found a second way to achieve data/code layout (the first being the linker script that Eugene mentioned). The key is that gnu as supports a feature called subsections. http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.20/as/Sub_002dSections.html#Sub_00 2dSections <snip>

Hi all, Just wanted to report that I've found a second way to achieve data/code layout (the first being the linker script that Eugene mentioned). The key is that gnu as supports a feature called subsections. http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.20/as/Sub_002dSections.html#Sub_002dSections The way this works is that you can put stuff into a section like '.text 2', where 2 is a subsection of .text When run, 'as' orders the subsections. So all you need to do is arrange for the sidetable to be in section '.text n' and the code in section ...