Where to add .alias and .secalias support?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> The .alias directive declares an alias for a label, a function name,
> or a symbolic constant.

Sounds like .rename in PPC XCOFF, q.v.  There was some reason it was
needed for XCOFF, although I've forgotten what that reason was.

> The .secalias directive declares an alias for a section name.

Sounds useless.

> I'd like to add them to gas. Should I make it ia64 specific or more
> generic?

I would vote for making them ia64 specific.  We can turn them into
generic code if anybody sees any point to it.

Ian