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Use gcc feature __attribute__ section to create the custom sections on the runtime

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While looking for a solution for https://github.com/AppImage/libappimage/issues/21 I found this nice gcc feature that will save us a lot of "fragile" cmake code at https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/blob/master/src/build-runtime.cmake

Basically to create a 10 bites long section named `foo` we would use the code below
`char custom_section[10] __attribute__((section("foo"))) = {0x0};`

Documentation can be found here http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/armcc/armcc_chr1359124982450.htm

Here is an example of how it's used to append metadata to the linux kernel modules:
https://www.bottomupcs.com/elf-sections-others.xhtml#modinfo_sections

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