why does .jcr work?

[Adam Megacz]

Each class has a .jcr section containing its class registration.  On
startup, libgcc's crtstuff.o looks for the symbol __JCR_BEGIN__ and
scans from there until __JCR_END__ to find the class registrations.

Two questions:

1. Why are all the .jcr sections guaranteed to be adjacent in the
   linked binary?  Does the linker guarantee alphabetical ordering, or
   is ".jcr" a "magic section" that gets special treatment from the
   linker?

2. Why is this in libgcc instead of simply in the constructor for some
   static C++ class in libgcj?

Thanks!

  - a

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