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On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:12:01PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > 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 ... > I am testing this patch now. H.J.
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