I should mention that with my patch .ascii is used more aggresively than
before, so if a string is longer than ELF_STRING_LIMIT it will be written
as .ascii all of it, while in the past it would use .string for the
string's tail. Example diff to original behaviour:
.LASF15458:
- .ascii "SSA_VAR_P(DECL) (TREE_CODE (DECL) == VA"
- .string "R_DECL || TREE_CODE (DECL) == PARM_DECL || TREE_CODE (DECL) == RESULT_DECL
|| (TREE_CODE (DECL) == SSA_NAME && (TREE_CODE (SSA_NAME_VAR (DECL)) == VAR_DECL ||
TREE_CODE (SSA_NAME_VAR (DECL)) == PARM_DECL || TREE_CODE (SSA_NAME_VAR (DECL)) ==
RESULT_DECL)))"
+ .ascii "SSA_VAR_P(DECL) (TREE_CODE (DECL) == VAR_DECL || TREE_CODE (D"
+ .ascii "ECL) == PARM_DECL || TREE_CODE (DECL) == RESULT_DECL || (TREE"
+ .ascii "_CODE (DECL) == SSA_NAME && (TREE_CODE (SSA_NAME_VAR (DECL)) "
+ .ascii "== VAR_DECL || TREE_CODE (SSA_NAME_VAR (DECL)) == PARM_DECL |"
+ .ascii "| TREE_CODE (SSA_NAME_VAR (DECL)) == RESULT_DECL)))\000"
BTW I can't find why ELF_STRING_LIMIT is only 256, it seems GAS supports
arbitrary lengths. I'd have to change my code if we ever set it too high
(or even unlimited) since I allocate the buffer on the stack.
Dimitris
