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: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:13:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Binutils 2.10 released
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> Can someone say a few words about the reason(s) for this .section
> .text change in GCC, and its implications, besides the issue with
> Binutils?

I changed it so the output of section names would be consistent. That way one 
could grep for '\.section' in an assembly output and have no trouble finding 
all the section changes. But it turns out that in C '.text' (and .data and 
.bss) is still output. As for implications beyond Binutils, I don't think 
there are any.

But the episodes also points gcc 3.0 can output code in sections other than 
.text (.gnu.linkonce.t.* for example). This just means that the section 
output macro needs to be changed to add the code attribute to these sections. 
No big deal.

Mark