.gnu.linkonce COFF support

[Mark E.]

Hello Ian and the list,
Some questions about possibilities for DJGPP COFF. Would enabling 
.gnu.linkonce.* for DJGPP COFF improve template support much over 
what weak symbols do already? This would require enabling the long 
section name feature (> 8 characters) , but it can be turned on by one 
line.

And from what I can gather from reading the source, existing object 
files would still be readable by the new binutils binaries produced (ld, 
objdump, etc). without this feature. Did I read correctly? And also new 
object files using just short names produced with the long section 
name feature would be readable by old binutils binaries?

Mark
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