Re: rationale for bss patterns in default_section_type_flags ?

[Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>]

On Friday, June 10, 2005, at 03:04  PM, Brett Porter wrote:
> Part of the question is "how bss sections are named" according
> to evolution, or some crystal clear standard, or what ?

Ultimately, people just pick names.  Once picked, they form crystal 
clear standards.

> > > 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.
>
> Ok. So a new category of bss sections could be matched by
> "X.bss" or "X.bss."*.  Would that be reasonable?

_prefix_, not suffix.  No.  You'd first have to explain why the 
existing standard of prefix can't be made to work I think.  .bss.X 
would be the convention to use.