[Bug 1001142] User defined linker sections.

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--- Comment #12 from John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk> 2011-02-14 13:16:02 GMT ---
(In reply to comment #11)

> I introduced them because of properties of CPP concatenation ## with respect to
> argument prescan.
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Argument-Prescan.html#Argument-Prescan
> They are needed if "_name_" is a macro:
> 
> #define FOO "foo"
> USER_SECTION(FOO, reg, vma, lma)
> 
> Example use case is when the section name is provided via CDL.
> I would keep them but we may consider more suitable names.

Ilija, thank you for the clarification. I now agree that we should keep them.
Perhaps they could be renamed to CYG_USER_SECTION_START() and
CYG_USER_SECTION_END() to reduce the possibility of a naming clash?

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