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Re: PATCH: Multiple sections with same name don't work
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 ...
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