Re: [PATCH 20/22] x86,word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 12:59:12PM -0800, Bill Wendling wrote:
> 
> Adding attributes to labels shouldn't be difficult, as you mention. In
> the case of cold/hot, it's adjusting some of the metadata that already
> exists on some basic blocks. It might be enough to allow the normal
> block placement algorithms to move the hot and cold blocks around for
> us. The question becomes how many attributes does GCC allow on labels?

I'm aware of 3: unused, hot, cold. Also:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Label-Attributes.html