ld section name length

ld section name length

[kieft_brian]

Is there a way to make ld allow section name lengths longer than 8 chars? Has
anyone taken a hack at this before? Thanks,

Brian




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Re: ld section name length

[Nick Clifton]

Hi

> Is there a way to make ld allow section name lengths longer than 8
> chars? Has anyone taken a hack at this before? Thanks,

In which file format ?

ELF for example allows section names longer than 8 characters, as does
XCOFF.  COFF and AOUT do not.

Cheers
        Nick

Re: ld section name length

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com> writes:

> > Is there a way to make ld allow section name lengths longer than 8
> > chars? Has anyone taken a hack at this before? Thanks,
> 
> In which file format ?
> 
> ELF for example allows section names longer than 8 characters, as does
> XCOFF.  COFF and AOUT do not.

Actually, this is supported in COFF as a GNU extension.  Define
COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES in your coff-foo.c file, and something similar
in the assembler.

Ian