• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (20/20) May 09 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12726

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12726

          Issue ID: 12726
           Summary: replace section brackets with linker script
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: DMD
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: code dawg.eu

Currently we're relying on the order of unknown output section to frame certain
sections (minfo, deh) with runtime accessibly brackets. A cleaner solution
would be to use PROVIDE_HIDDEN(_mingo_beg) in a linker script.
It's possible to extend the default linker scripts using -T and the INSERT
command, see
http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Miscellaneous-Commands.html#Miscellaneous-Commands

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