On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0500, Eli Carter wrote:
> Some of the assembly files use
> .section ".start", "ax"
> and others use
> .section ".start", #alloc, #execinstr
> (and not just for .start, try
> find -name \*.S | xargs grep -e '\.section'
> )
>
> These appear to be equivelent, if not somebody clue me in please. :)
> Which is the prefered form? The latter seems to provide a bit more for
> the human, so I'd vote that direction... ;)
I guess you're asking about the IOP3xx stuff.
info as
mp<tab>
msec<tab>
gives all the details. To summarise though:
"a" or "#alloc" - the section is allocatable
"x" or "#execinstr" - the section is executable
"ax" seems to be what Linus uses. I used to use the long versions, but
changed to the shorter version - less characters to type, but still
fairly readable. After all, you don't catch people trying to make ls
report stuff like:
file, user read write execute, group read execute, other read execute,
2 links, owner root, group root, 44 kibytes, modified xxxx, name "foo"
(or I hope you don't! 8))
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