From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19299 invoked by alias); 1 May 2004 07:08:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19288 invoked from network); 1 May 2004 07:08:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net) (204.127.198.39) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 May 2004 07:08:54 -0000 Received: from lucon.org ([24.6.43.109]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004050107085301500hvq60e>; Sat, 1 May 2004 07:08:53 +0000 Received: by lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C48DF64CFF; Sat, 1 May 2004 00:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 07:08:00 -0000 From: "H. J. Lu" To: Zack Weinberg Cc: "H. J. Lu" , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: Multiple sections with same name don't work Message-ID: <20040501070852.GB25679@lucon.org> References: <20040430221244.GA17029@lucon.org> <20040430230129.GA17907@lucon.org> <20040501003636.GA19527@lucon.org> <20040501023136.GQ2565@bubble.modra.org> <20040501025913.GR2565@bubble.modra.org> <20040501034300.GA22385@lucon.org> <20040501042506.GS2565@bubble.modra.org> <87d65obuji.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d65obuji.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:12:01PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Alan Modra 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 looking forward to that day :-). I will do my best to make sure assembler and linker will handle them correctly. H.J.