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. :)
They're equivalent.
> Which is the prefered form? The latter seems to provide a bit more for
> the human, so I'd vote that direction... ;)
Well, GCC prefers the former. Binutils will accept either; they have
historically different origins.
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