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Orphan and --split-by-{file,reloc} section naming


Does anyone have any objection to changing the section naming scheme used
for orphan sections, and --split-by-{file,reloc}, to include a period
before the numeric suffix?  ie. generate foo.1, foo.2 instead of foo1,
foo2.

The advantage here is that names like .text.*, .rela.text.* and so forth
are already in the default elf linker script, and it's sometimes
useful to split .text sections during a relocateable link, and combine
them later when building a shared library.  The combining happens
without a custom script if we choose the right names.

Alan Modra
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