Re: [PATCH] BUG preserve registers

Andrew Morton
2002-02-10T06:51:22Z

"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
>
> One possibility is to do something like:
>
> ud2
> .word __LINE__
> .long 1f
> .section __FILE__
> .linkonce discard
> 1: .asciz __FILE__
> .previous
>
> Which will put each filename string in it's own section and let the
> linker merge the duplicates.

That would work. When it didn't I r'ed tfm:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/gas-2.9.1/html_node/as_102.html

"This directive is only supported by a few object file formats;
as of this writing, the only object file format which supports
it is the Portable Executable format used on Windows NT."

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