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Re: Orphan and --split-by-{file,reloc} section naming
- To: alan at linuxcare dot com dot au
- Subject: Re: Orphan and --split-by-{file,reloc} section naming
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:55:57 -0700
- CC: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Hi Alan,
: Does anyone have any objection to changing the section naming scheme used
: for orphan sections, and --split-by-{file,reloc}, to include a period
: before the numeric suffix? ie. generate foo.1, foo.2 instead of foo1,
: foo2.
:
: The advantage here is that names like .text.*, .rela.text.* and so forth
: are already in the default elf linker script, and it's sometimes
: useful to split .text sections during a relocateable link, and combine
: them later when building a shared library. The combining happens
: without a custom script if we choose the right names.
I have no objections. in fact I like the idea of making these
sections names follow the same kind of naming scheme as used by other
"interesting" sections.
Cheers
Nick