From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264144AbTDOWyS (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:54:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264145AbTDOWyS (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:54:18 -0400 Received: from crack.them.org ([65.125.64.184]:51115 "EHLO crack.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264144AbTDOWyQ (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:54:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:06:04 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Carter Cc: LKML Subject: Re: .section ... "ax" vs #alloc, #execinstr Message-ID: <20030415230604.GA22231@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Carter , LKML References: <3E9C664A.503@inet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E9C664A.503@inet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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