Cary Coutant ccoutant@google.com
Wed Jul 21 15:15:00 GMT 2010

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>> I think .zdebug_* was much better idea then this weird overloading of
>> standard sections, it will confuse a lot of tools very badly.
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> Seconded.  And this was possible to use it on other formats (eg: PE/PE+).

Agreed. If we're not going to use a special section type (or flag,
although I would still prefer a type), we need to keep the ".zdebug"
names. As much as I dislike basing special behavior on section names,
I dislike peeking at the section contents even more.

-cary

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