On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:52, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I believe his point is that .text* matches .textual and .texterific and > many other sections which shouldn't be matched. So you need to match > .text and .text.*, not just .text* Exactly. The best example I can give is that I've fixed broken linker scripts in libgloss that tried to match linkonce small data sections using .gnu.linkonce.s*, without realizing that linkonce small bss sections are .gnu.linkonce.sb.*. This caused some C++ programs to fail in strange and difficult to debug ways. Those dots are important. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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