[PATCH/RFC] Map .coment/.note to BSD/POSIX symbol types

Elias Athanasopoulos elathan@phys.uoa.gr
Fri May 23 16:47:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:24:47AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Using 'r' for sections which are not loaded is a bad idea.  If you
> want to put in a check for SEC_LOAD, then your patch is fine.
> 
> Otherwise, I think it would be quite reasonable to use 'N', which
> indicates a debugging section.  If you think it would be useful to
> distinguish these symbols from symbols which are strictly for
> debugging, then 'n' would be OK by me.

I agree with you, so as to not be able to choose what to follow. :-) So, 
I'll wait for others to drop their suggestion.

'N' is quite reasonable to me too, though...

Regards,
Elias

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