Oops, forgot to CC to uclibc. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Douglas Mencken <[email protected]> wrote: >> shouldn't also .globl and .type be removed? > > No, it's used by 'as' to generate proper ELF entries. > > $ readelf -a crtn.o | grep FUNC > 8: 00000000 16 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND _init > 9: 00000000 16 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND _fini > > .size was never used, it's useless, and now binutils does right job as > forcing them to be an error. > At least, for powerpc assembly.
Well, it's only time for you to figure that out. When your team got binutils 2.21 (would it happen after a month, a year or 1000 years?). By the way, linux the kernel guys do actively removing .size directives from assembly source files. _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
