Re: Orphan and --split-by-{file,reloc} section naming

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Alan,

: Does anyone have any objection to changing the section naming scheme used
: for orphan sections, and --split-by-{file,reloc}, to include a period
: before the numeric suffix?  ie. generate foo.1, foo.2 instead of foo1,
: foo2.
: 
: The advantage here is that names like .text.*, .rela.text.* and so forth
: are already in the default elf linker script, and it's sometimes
: useful to split .text sections during a relocateable link, and combine
: them later when building a shared library.  The combining happens
: without a custom script if we choose the right names.

I have no objections.  in fact I like the idea of making these
sections names follow the same kind of naming scheme as used by other
"interesting" sections.

Cheers
	Nick