On Friday, June 10, 2005, at 03:04 PM, Brett Porter wrote:
Part of the question is "how bss sections are named" according
to evolution, or some crystal clear standard, or what ?
Ultimately, people just pick names. Once picked, they form crystal
clear standards.
Would matching, say, ".bss" anywhere-in or at-the-end-of name be
appropriate?
No, the standard is to be prefix based, this simplifies the impact on
the linker scripts.
Ok. So a new category of bss sections could be matched by
"X.bss" or "X.bss."*. Would that be reasonable?
_prefix_, not suffix. No. You'd first have to explain why the
existing standard of prefix can't be made to work I think. .bss.X
would be the convention to use.
