Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:06:04 -0400 | From | Daniel Jacobowitz <> | Subject | Re: .section ... "ax" vs #alloc, #execinstr |
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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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