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Subject: Does __attribute__ ((selectany)) make sense now for GCC?
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In Visual Studio we have __declspec(selectany) to limit the impact of unused
data.

 

I see that GCC for Windows has __attribute__ ((selectany)).

 

Should we me using this for GLOBAL_REMOVE_IF_UNREFERENCED in
MdePkg\Include\Base.h?

 

Tim