On Jun 25, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Steven Bosscher wrote: > In fact darwin does follow the > naming convention, the only difference is that it wraps the section > name in a segment label (always "__DWARF__") and adds some flags > (always "regular,debug"). I would have expected there to be a way to > change a section name in a target-specific way (something like a > targetm.asm_out.adjust_section_name to transform ".debug_blah" to > "__DWARF,__debug_blah,regular,debug") but it seems such a mechanism > doesn't exist. Maybe add a hook for this?
A section name transform hook does seem cleaner to me. Additionally, this could be used to aid portability of using the section selection across darwin and non-darwin targets, so I think it has value beyond a cleaner interface.
