Although this only fires for one of the Darwin sub-ports, it is latent
elsewhere, it is also a regression c.f. the Darwin system compiler.
In the code we imported from an earlier branch, CFString objects (which
are constant aggregates) are constructed as CONST_DECLs. Although our
current documentation suggests that these are reserved for enumeration
values, in fact they are used elsewhere in the compiler for constants.
This includes Objective-C where they are used to form NSString constants.
In the particular case, we take the address of the constant and that
triggers varasm.cc:decode_addr_constant, which does not currently support
CONST_DECL.
If there is a general intent to allow/encourage wider use of CONST_DECL,
then we should fix decode_addr_constant to look through these and evaluate
the initializer (a two-line patch, but I'm not suggesting it for stage-4).
We also need to update the GCC internals documentation to allow for the
additional uses.
This patch is Darwin-local and fixes the problem by making the CFString
constants into regular variable but TREE_CONSTANT+TREE_READONLY. I plan
to back-port this to the open branches once it has baked a while on trunk.
Since, for Darwin, the Objective-C default is to construct constant
NSString objects as CFStrings; this will also cover the majority of cases
there (this patch does not make any changes to Objective-C NSStrings).
PR target/105522
gcc/ChangeLog:
* config/darwin.cc (machopic_select_section): Handle C and C++
CFStrings.
(darwin_rename_builtins): Move this out of the CFString code.
(darwin_libc_has_function): Likewise.
(darwin_build_constant_cfstring): Create an anonymous var to
hold each CFString.
* config/darwin.h (ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF): Handle constant
CFstrings.