portable method to add a new output section?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Gary,

> The default script can be coaxed from ld using the -verbose
> option, and we can likely write a perl or sed script that
> edits the default script adding a directive like the one
> shown above.  This script can then be passed to ld
> using the -T switch.

Have you tried just adding this partial script to the linker command line ?  If 
the linker sees a file specified on the command line in a format that it does 
not recognise it assumes that it is a linker script and it uses this script to 
augment the current linker script.

Cheers
   Nick