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Re: rationale for bss patterns in default_section_type_flags ?

On Friday, June 10, 2005, at 07:30 AM, Olivier Hainque wrote: 
Is there a rationale  for the list of bss patterns matched by
default_section_type_flags_1 ?

That is how bss sections are named?!

Would matching, say, ".bss" anywhere-in or at-the-end-of name be
appropriate?

No, the standard is to be prefix based, this simplifies the impact on the linker scripts.

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