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Re: rationale for bss patterns in default_section_type_flags ?
- From: Brett Porter <porter at adacore dot com>
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- Cc: Olivier Hainque <hainque at adacore dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:04:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: rationale for bss patterns in default_section_type_flags ?
- References: <570C2AA4-DA11-11D9-AE6C-003065BDF310@apple.com>
> > The situation is: in an embedded system, certain
> > variables are placed in .persistent.bss
>
> Sounds like a fine name. Why not just use that name?
Doing an exact match on that name in default_section_type_flags_1
is a nice solution for our needs. The reason for our query was
twofold: are there standards (of any form :) that such a choice
would be incompatible with?; would anything more general be
appropriate (thus the suffix question)?
Brett