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Re: [PATCH, testsuite] Fix PR78544 for Darwin.
> On 15 Aug 2018, at 20:07, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018, Iain Sandoe wrote:
>
>> One of my Grand Ideas (i.e. things that might never happen because of
>> time) would be to split out the Well Known Sections used by GCC into
>> file/files with .defs for the different flavours. This would mean one
>> place to add a new GCC named section - which would make it much less
>> likely for folks to forget to add the Darwin ones (assuming there are no
>> targets left without named sections).
>
> Targets without named sections are pdp11 and 32-bit PA HP-UX (plus
> m68k-openbsd and vax-openbsd, but I think the non-ELF OpenBSD targets are
> for very old OpenBSD versions, probably long obsolete).
So, I suppose, one would need to make it possible to put .data / .text to pick the
“most suitable” substitute for those (I guess somehow that’s already done for
existing generic infra. that uses named sections).
Iain