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Subject: Re: RFC: Add STB_GNU_SECONDARY
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>
Cc: "Ansari, Zia" <zia.ansari@intel.com>, GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, 	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
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On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net> wrot=
e:
> Quoting "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>:
>
>> Putting our own foo in a section with a special prefix in section name,
>> like .secondary_*, works with linker support. =A0But it isn't very relia=
ble.
>
>
> In what way is requiring linker support for STB_GNU_SECONDARY more reliab=
le
> than requiring linker support for .secondary_* sections?

It may lead to conflict with section __attribute__ in C source and section
directive in assembly code.

--=20
H.J.