PRASANTH RAJAGOPAL <prasanthris@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I read about gnu.linkonce. But I am confused about the idea behind the > section names appearing twice: > > .text & .text.* > > Could someone explain me the difference? The linker script language permits shell patterns. The string ".text" will only match a section named ".text". The string ".text.*" will match any section whose name begins with ".text.", such as ".text.fn". Ian
