Making generic ld testcases pass on more targets

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Alan Modra wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:31:25PM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > But please make the name less collision-prone.  How about
> > ".gnu.dc.a"?
>
> Hmm.  Do you know of some other assembler that uses dc.a?

Nope.  But I know of some other that use .dc.C (C=b,w).

It just seems painlessly safer to use a unique prefix, now that
we don't *have* to cast *any* doubt whatsoever of colliding with
any pre-existing convention.  I mean, why not?

> > While you're at it, some fixed-size relocs would be nice too:
> > ".gnu.dc.1" .. ".gnu.dc.4" (and 8 for 64-bitters).
>
> You already have them.  Lots of 'em.  See read.c potable.

But still only with the "dc." prefix and similar.

brgds, H-P