From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:56:56 -0500
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Subject: Re: Patch for djgpp.djl
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> Is there any chance these changes will have problems with previous
> versions of GCC and/or Binutils?  If not, I think the changes can go
> in.
No.

> Just for the record, could someone please say a few words about these
> new sections, and the issue of unique sections in general?  Thanks.

Unique sections are generated to ensure that only one copy of something will 
appear in the final link or for garbage collection by the linker. The patch 
adds support for the sections for the second case and .gnu.linkonce* sections 
handle the first case.

Mark