Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:01:06 -0500
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Subject: Re: Long section names with COFF?
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> 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"

IIRC the eight bytes where the name would go contain four zeros and
then an offset into the string table.