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Re: ld section name length
Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com> writes:
> > Is there a way to make ld allow section name lengths longer than 8
> > chars? Has anyone taken a hack at this before? Thanks,
>
> In which file format ?
>
> ELF for example allows section names longer than 8 characters, as does
> XCOFF. COFF and AOUT do not.
Actually, this is supported in COFF as a GNU extension. Define
COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES in your coff-foo.c file, and something similar
in the assembler.
Ian