Re: [Linux-ia64] Pseudo-ops: IAS versus ia64-hp-linux-as

[Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>]

>The following explanation is from the developer of IAS:

Thanks for the explanation.  It has been obvious to me for almost 3 years
that there was a problem with managing the size of the short data section,
and it is good to see that Intel has defined a solution for this.

>Note: that the two must come together and the need for linker support. As
>far as I know GNU linker does not support this.

Because the GNU hackers didn't know about the feature until now.  ld8.mov isn't
mentioned in my copy of the Assembler Reference Guide.  I see that there is a
new version of it on the Intel web site, but in order to figure that out,
I had to download it first.  It would be nice if these documents had version
numbers, so I can more easily tell when new versions are available.  Also,
the lack of change bars and a document history chapter means I have to
compare the new doc against the old doc by hand to find what is new.  That
is enough of a hassle that I rarely bother to do it.

Jim