What do two sections of same name mean in a linkerscipt?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

PRASANTH RAJAGOPAL <prasanthris@gmail.com> writes:

> I read about gnu.linkonce. But I am confused about the idea behind the
> section names appearing twice:
>
> .text & .text.*
>
> Could someone explain me the difference?

The linker script language permits shell patterns.  The string ".text"
will only match a section named ".text".  The string ".text.*" will
match any section whose name begins with ".text.", such as ".text.fn".

Ian