From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: .section ... "ax" vs #alloc, #execinstr
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:06:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030415230604.GA22231@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E9C664A.503@inet.com>
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0500, Eli Carter wrote:
> Some of the assembly files use
> .section ".start", "ax"
> and others use
> .section ".start", #alloc, #execinstr
> (and not just for .start, try
> find -name \*.S | xargs grep -e '\.section'
> )
>
> These appear to be equivelent, if not somebody clue me in please. :)
They're equivalent.
> Which is the prefered form? The latter seems to provide a bit more for
> the human, so I'd vote that direction... ;)
Well, GCC prefers the former. Binutils will accept either; they have
historically different origins.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-15 20:06 .section ... "ax" vs #alloc, #execinstr Eli Carter
2003-04-15 23:05 ` Russell King
2003-04-15 23:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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