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

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.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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