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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:02:16 -0400
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Subject: Re: small patch for crt0.s
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> Btw, could you describe the long section name feature in a couple of 
> sentences, from the user point of view?  I would like to mention it in 
> the "What changed" section of the Knowledge Base.
> 

Is this what you're looking for?

Starting with the 2.10 release of Binutils, the DJGPP port of Binutils eliminates 
the eight character limit on section names. This was done so DJGPP can use a feature 
(called .gnu.linkonce) that allows for improved support for C++ templates but 
requires long section names for it to work. When Binutils 2.10 is released, and when 
a version of GCC is released containing the configuration changes neccessary to take 
advantage of this .gnu.linkonce feature, then DJGPP's C++ users will be able to use 
the same automatic template instantiation method already available the Win32 and 
Unix ports.


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Mark Elbrecht, snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com
http://snowball.frogspace.net/