[PATCH] D153215: [Object] Add ELF section type SHT_LLVM_LTO for fat LTO

[Fangrui Song via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

MaskRay added a comment.

In D153215#4430886 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D153215#4430886>, @nikic wrote:

> Why is a new section type necessary? Will this cause any compatibility issues with old binutils versions?

ELF's spirit is to distinguish special sections with a section type instead of a name. (Older object file formats (COFF,Mach-O) don't use this convention, it's fine.)
If we need to perform special tasks with the section, we can use an integer comparison instead of a string comparison.


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