Hello,
Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauerm...@linaro.org> writes:
> This problem was noticed because the recent binutils commit
> d5cbf916be4a ("gas/ELF: also reject merge entity size being zero") caused
> gas to be stricter about mergeable sections without an entity size:
>
> configure:27013: checking assembler for section merging support
> configure:27022: /path/to/as --fatal-warnings -o conftest.o conftest.s >&5
> conftest.s: Assembler messages:
> conftest.s:1: Warning: invalid merge / string entity size
> conftest.s: Error: 1 warning, treating warnings as errors
> configure:27025: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was
> .section .rodata.str, "aMS", @progbits, 1
> configure:27036: result: no
>
> In previous versions of gas the conftest.s program above was accepted
> and configure detected support for section merging.
I just posted a patch for gas implementing a suggestion by Alan Modra
that makes it accept the syntax above:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/20250103032831.622617-1-thiago.bauerm...@linaro.org/
However, I think it's still a good idea to commit this patch.
--
Thiago
