Re: [PATCH] arm32: Avoid using solaris syntax for .section directive

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 12:33 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 01.08.2023 02:12, Khem Raj wrote:
> > Assembler from binutils 2.41 rejects this syntax
> >
> > .section "name"[, flags...]
> >
> > where flags could be #alloc, #write, #execstr
> > Switch to using ELF syntax
>
> You mean GNU, not ELF (ELF is describing the object format, not the
> syntax used). Feels almost like a regression (I'll mention that to
> Alan), which likely went unnoticed so far because Linux had changed
> to GNU syntax already in 5.5, to allow building with Clang's
> integrated assembler. This aspect may be worth mentioning here as
> well.

OK will send v2

>
> > .section name[, "flags"[, @type]]
> >
> > [1] 
> > https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gas-2.9.1/html_chapter/as_7.html#SEC119
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Out of curiosity - why were there four instances of the patch?
> They all look largely identical; if there are differences, I haven't
> spotted them.

there should not have been
I was a not a subscriber to mailing list, did not realize why it was
not appearing on ml :)

>
> Jan