On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Joern Rennecke <amyl...@spamcop.net> wrote: > Quoting "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com>: > >> Putting our own foo in a section with a special prefix in section name, >> like .secondary_*, works with linker support. But it isn't very reliable. > > > In what way is requiring linker support for STB_GNU_SECONDARY more reliable > than requiring linker support for .secondary_* sections?
It may lead to conflict with section __attribute__ in C source and section directive in assembly code. -- H.J.