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Re: crossgcc: arbitrary sections?

    Josef> Hello!  I have built m68k-coff for an embedded environment
    Josef> and it runs great.  But now I need arbitrary named sections
    Josef> to store data which can be changed at run-time but needs to
    Josef> survive across power-downs. Nut gcc says, I can't specify
    Josef> arbitrary named sections with coff.  Would this be possible
    Josef> with aout or elf? Or do I need to specify some wired option
    Josef> while compiling?

You can most certainly do what you want with coff. My favorite method is
to use linker scripts.
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