Re: [PATCH] pop previous section in alternative.c

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Obviously, it would have been really nice if something like the assembler 
> had caught it with some simple sanity-test (ie I think the .size thing 
> would be a good sanity check _regardless_), so in that sense it's our bug 
> that might have been avoided with soem sanity testing, but on the other 
> hand, I can well understand that gas didn't do it - since it would matter 
> only for totally buggy code that was never emitted by the compiler.
> 

Agreed.

> Gas historically used to not do any sanity-checking what-so-ever, and was 
> very much meant to be just for compiler output (which is why #APP exists 
> in the first place - to mark places that aren't pure compiler input). It's 
> actually improved immensely in that area and now is useful as a 
> traditional human-usable assembler with lots of support like macros etc.

Indeed it has.

	-hpa