This is GNU ELF linker extension used particularly by LibC code.
If input object files contain section named XXX, and the XXX is a valid C
identifier, and there are undefined or weak symbols __start_XXX/__stop_XXX,
linker should define __start_XXX/__stop_XXX symbols point to the begin/end
of the XXX section correspondingly.
For example, without support of this extension statically linked executables
for X86_64 and Mips (maybe other) targets do not flush IO buffers at the end
of executing.
llvm-svn: 241341
Rui Ueyama