RE: [PATCH] new ".serialize" gas directive

Luck, Tony
2004-06-16T22:56:52Z

>I see that the LOAD_PHYSICAL macro expansion includes a tag, which is
>kind of like a label. Perhaps there was a problem with tags in earlier
>gas versions, or perhaps earlier kernel versions used an actual label
>instead of a tag here. Use of a label here may have been necessary
>before the assembler had tag support for instance, in which case the
>.pred.rel would have been necessary.

Yes, the first implementation of LOAD_PHYSICAL used a label
(but not because of lack of assembler support for tags, I
just didn't know about them).

-Tony