On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com wrote:
Have you seen http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-08/msg00121.html ?
That's interesting--- I hadn't fully understood what this did.
I'm not sure it solves my problem though: I need to generate ancillary sectiions relating for normal sections, and I need the relationship to be visible in the name so that a linker script can remove related sections in a sane way.
I think my proposal allows for a solution to the general problem of allowing assembler directives to do things based on the current assembler state, where "?" solves only a specific instance of that problem, just allowing .section and related directives to do something quite specific based on a specific property of the assembler state (the current section group name).
If I'm wrong and you can see how to solve my problem, I'd definitely be interested though.
Cheers ---Dave