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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2018-01-08 09:29:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2018-01-08 09:29:17 +0000 |
| commit | 102e9361c88882756ad7ffceb0713a794c991e69 (patch) | |
| tree | f92349f0afa5f484a00dfa41079a6055f3b527bc /gas | |
| parent | 04bafb1ed002df1f25ca5a5773d87723a4baf46b (diff) | |
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Add a description of the X86_64 assembler's .largcomm pseudo-op.
PR 22553
* doc/c-i386.texi (i386-Directives): Document the .largecomm
directive.
Diffstat (limited to 'gas')
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/doc/c-i386.texi | 11 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index 85ced2f..d3ad1a4 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2018-01-08 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + PR 22553 + * doc/c-i386.texi (i386-Directives): Document the .largecomm + directive. + 2018-01-04 Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com> * testsuite/gas/riscv/priv-reg.s: Add missing stval and mtval. diff --git a/gas/doc/c-i386.texi b/gas/doc/c-i386.texi index 91f5c5a..e500e7c 100644 --- a/gas/doc/c-i386.texi +++ b/gas/doc/c-i386.texi @@ -431,8 +431,17 @@ specifies the desired alignment of the symbol in the bss section. This directive is only available for COFF based x86 targets. +@cindex @code{largecomm} directive, ELF +@item .largecomm @var{symbol} , @var{length}[, @var{alignment}] +This directive behaves in the same way as the @code{comm} directive +except that the data is placed into the @var{.lbss} section instead of +the @var{.bss} section @ref{Comm}. + +The directive is intended to be used for data which requires a large +amount of space, and it is only available for ELF based x86_64 +targets. + @c FIXME: Document other x86 specific directives ? Eg: .code16gcc, -@c .largecomm @end table |