+#define ___cat(a, b) a ## b
+#define __cat(a, b) ___cat(a, b)
+
+/* we need some special handling for this host tool running eventually on
+ * Darwin. The Mach-O section handling is a bit different than ELF section
+ * handling. The differnces in detail are:
+ * a) we have segments which have sections
+ * b) we need a API call to get the respective section symbols */
+#if defined(__MACH__)
+#include <mach-o/getsect.h>
+
+#define INIT_SECTION(name) do { \
+ unsigned long name ## _len; \
+ char *__cat(pstart_, name) = getsectdata("__TEXT", \
+ #name, &__cat(name, _len)); \
+ char *__cat(pstop_, name) = __cat(pstart_, name) + \
+ __cat(name, _len); \
+ __cat(__start_, name) = (void *)__cat(pstart_, name); \
+ __cat(__stop_, name) = (void *)__cat(pstop_, name); \
+ } while (0)
+#define SECTION(name) __attribute__((section("__TEXT, " #name)))
+
+struct image_type_params **__start_image_type, **__stop_image_type;
+#else
+#define INIT_SECTION(name) /* no-op for ELF */
+#define SECTION(name) __attribute__((section(#name)))
+
+/* We construct a table of pointers in an ELF section (pointers generally
+ * go unpadded by gcc). ld creates boundary syms for us. */
+extern struct image_type_params *__start_image_type[], *__stop_image_type[];
+#endif /* __MACH__ */
+
+#if !defined(__used)
+# if __GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3
+# define __used __attribute__((__unused__))
+# else
+# define __used __attribute__((__used__))
+# endif
+#endif
+