On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:33:13AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Tim Abbott wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 May 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> >>> +#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA .section ".data.page_aligned", "aw",
> >>> @progbits
> >>> +#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS .section ".bss.page_aligned", "aw",
> >>> @nobits
> >> It is my understanding that the linker will automatically
> >> assume nobits for section names starting with .bss and likewise
> >> progbits for section names starting with .data - so we can leave them out?
> >
> > I believe that is correct.
> >
>
> ... but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
>
> It's better to be fully explicit when macroizing this kind of stuff.
> This is part of why macroizing it is good: it means we end up with *one*
> place that determines this stuff, not some magic heuristics in the linker.
Do you know if we can use % in place of @?
I could see that gas supports both - at least in trunk in cvs.
Sam
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