Maximum number of segments (about 30)

[Jimmy_B <ji...@ea...>]

PRC-tools has a maximum of 40 sections imposed by the assembler, gas. Of these,
several are taken by automatically created sections. Experimentally, I've found
it will start generating errors with more than 30 custom sections (each
containing a function and a string literal).

Looking at the gas source, it's obvious that it's hard-coded. In fact, it looks
like it's been increased several times in the past. However, the number of
segments affects some internal data structures, and looking through I got lost
trying to find all the potentially-problematic references. Is somebody willing
to make the change for me, or if not, point me to the patch where it was changed
before for reference?

While I'm not entirely certain I'm going to need that many segments, I do know
that the maximum size it would impose (960k) is significantly smaller than the
PC executable of the program I'm trying to port.