Vtable emission (Notes from the 14 July meeting)

[Jim Dehnert]

> From owner-cxx-abi-sgi at cthulhu  Fri Jul 16 16:58:43 1999
> From: "Matt Austern" <austern at isolde>
> 
> Open issue: the elf format allows only 16 bits for section identifiers,
> and typically two of those bits are already taken up for other things.
> So we've only got 16k sections available, which is unacceptable if we're
> creating lots of small sections.

I don't understand the comment about two bits being taken up for other
things.  There are 256 indices reserved for special sections (e.g.
SHN_COMMON).  And a data/text section typically comes with an
associated relocation and potentially debug sections.  Is that what
you're referring to?

-		Jim Dehnert  x3-4272