[PATCH] D43097: [WebAssembly] Allow for the creation of user-defined custom sections
Sam Clegg via Phabricator via llvm-commits
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Sat Mar 10 17:43:03 PST 2018
sbc100 added a comment.
In https://reviews.llvm.org/D43097#1033939, @ncw wrote:
> How do you expect the linker to handle these custom sections? We currently discard them. Will there be semantics for how to merge them, if there are name clashes, etc...?
>
> I can't see a problem with the code and approach - don't wait on my review - but I'm just a bit hazy on the end-to-end story for bindings generators (which presumably will have to hook into things at the C level via a new attribute?)
I imagine that sections with the same name should be concatenated (with relocations as needed). At least this is what I think the linker currently does for debug sections in ELF. I could be wrong though.
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