On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:12:01PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:43:00PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:29:13PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> >> > Actually, it is probably a mistake to try to support multiple sections
> >> > of the same name in gas.  For instance, if you have two .text sections,
> >> > how is gas supposed to evaluate ".long .text" ?
> >> 
> >> Will that be generated by compiler? If not, we can issue an error.
> >
> > The real question is: Do we need multiple sections of the same name
> > in assembly files?  I don't think we do.
> 
> I need them in order to generate COMDAT sections compatible with the
> HPUX linker.  gcc might emit e.g.
> 
>      .section .text 
>      # non-COMDAT code  ...
> 
>      .section .text,"G",symbol_name,comdat
>      # code for symbol_name ...
> 
>      .section .eh_frame
>      # non-COMDAT unwind info ...
> 
>      .section .eh_frame,"G",symbol_name,comdat
>      # unwind info for symbol_name ...
> 

I am testing this patch now.


H.J.