From:	Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Long section names with COFF?
Date:	Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:50:31 +1100
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>How do long section names (longer than 8 characters) work with COFF?
>
>The specs at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/coff/
>discuss only 8-character section names. However, an object (.o)
>file that I created from C++ code using the latest DJGPP contains
>sections such as ".gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV5img_c"

I can't answer this one the followign may help:

Which version of GCC are you using?  

Have you looked at the linker file in the lib directory? Do a search
at www.delorie.com through the newsgroups and maling lists to find out
about the changes to the linker file over the last few years since
2.03 was released.

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