Some extensions to the .section directive for ELF and COFF

[Rafael Espíndola]

Sure. I emailed a patch to llvm-commits and cced you.

On 6 April 2015 at 11:33, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Rafael Espíndola
> <rafael.espindola@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am currently inclined to go with the unique id option. I will
>>> implement it Monday morning to
>>> see what it looks like.
>>
>> So far so good.
>>
>> An initial attempt found issues with ARM's unwind info (like Alan
>> Modra suspect there will be in gas), but they were easy to fix and a
>> bootstrap on a chromebook is going well now.
>>
>> The extensions are documented in http://llvm.org/docs/Extensions.html
>>
>> Thanks for all the feedback!
>
> All .section parameters are separated by `,'. Can we use
>
> .section        .text,"ax",@progbits,unique,N
>
> instead of
>
> .section        .text,"ax",@progbits,unique N
>
>
> --
> H.J.