Re: PATCH: Add bfd_get_section_ident

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi H. J.

> > Also, would it be possible to include a test somewhere that checks the 
> > behaviour of this patch ?

> Here is a testcase:
>
> [hjl@gnu 1]$ make
> gcc -c foo.s
> gcc -c bar.s
> ld -r -o new.o foo.o bar.o
> bar: discarded in section `.text[.foo]' from bar.o
> make: [new.o] Error 1 (ignored)


> /usr/bin/ld -r -o old.o foo.o bar.o
> bar: discarded in section `.text' from bar.o
> make: [old.o] Error 1 (ignored)
>
> There may be many `.text' sections in bar.o. `.text[.foo]' is more
> useful.

Thanks - that makes your patch clearer.  Please consider the patch approved.

Cheers
  Nick