Possible to turn of section merging?

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 08:23:54AM +0530, Chauhan, Himanshu wrote:
> I have noticed that once I define __pml4, __pgdp, __pgdi, __pgti using
> .comm or .lcomm, no matter what I do, these labels are merged inside bss.

Exactly as I suspected.  :)  .comm and .lcomm define common symbols.
gas doesn't define these symbols in whatever section happens to be
current.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM