Named sections.

[Nick Palmer <nicholas at slackers dot net>]

Is there an easy way with gcc to name the .data and .bss sections for a 
particular file something else. I am working on a project where it is 
required that we be able to do this so that we can separate some .data 
sections and some .bss sections from others. The only solutions I have 
found to date are the .section assembler directive and using a linker 
script with all of the file names. Both are very hard to maintain. What I 
am looking for is a command line option at compile time, or a #pragma that 
would do this for us. I have worked with several other tool chains that 
have this feature, and would be disappointed to learn that this feature has 
not yet been implemented with gcc.

Thanks for your time,
Nick