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

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:50:08PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> 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.

> 2004-04-30  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
> 
> 	* symbols.c (symbol_set_bfdsym): Don't reset BFD section symbol.
> 

This patch is not enough. Here is an updated one.


H.J.

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