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From:	rhk AT farpoint DOT newimage DOT com (Ray Kelm)
Subject:	Re: __attribute__((section))
Organization:	New Image Software, Inc.
Message-ID:	<Dv8JpK.rn@farpoint.newimage.com>
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Date:	Sun, 28 Jul 1996 04:12:56 GMT
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Mark Habersack (grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl) wrote:

: Messing up with sections of COFF images produced by djgpp I tried to put some
: data into the separate section using the (section) attribute. Unfortunately
: gcc aborts saying that "current target doesn't support sections" (not the
: exact message but the meaning is the same). So how it is? Object files output
: by gcc are COFF, right? They support many sections and put no restriction on

This is something I am also interested in, since I want to use DJGPP to
create windows 95 device drivers, which use COFF format. The key to doing
this is to have a compiler that can put code and data into a few different
sections. 

I traced this problem for a ways into the code, and it seemed that the
problem was actually in binutils (libbfd). Beyond that I didn't have enough
time to really dig into it.
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Raymond H Kelm II                                   New Image Software, Inc
rhk AT farpoint DOT newimage DOT com                               Makers of Image BBS
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