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-rw-r--r--gas/doc/c-arm.texi2
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diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index f9af65d6..4153dbe 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-03-07 Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
+ Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+ * doc/as.texinfo (2byte, 4byte, 8byte): Document.
+ * doc/c-arm.texi (2byte, 4byte, 8byte): Omit if ELF.
+
2017-03-06 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* config/tc-i386.c (cpu_arch): Add .cet.
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
index 8c7fdfd..0a70d7c 100644
--- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo
+++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
@@ -4555,6 +4555,11 @@ Some machine configurations provide additional directives.
@ifclear no-space-dir
* Zero:: @code{.zero @var{size}}
@end ifclear
+@ifset ELF
+* 2byte:: @code{.2byte @var{expressions}}
+* 4byte:: @code{.4byte @var{expressions}}
+* 8byte:: @code{.8byte @var{bignums}}
+@end ifset
* Deprecated:: Deprecated Directives
@end menu
@@ -7333,6 +7338,39 @@ so in can take an optional second argument of the value to store in the bytes
instead of zero. Using @samp{.zero} in this way would be confusing however.
@end ifclear
+@ifset ELF
+@node 2byte
+@cindex @code{2byte} directive
+@cindex two-byte integer
+@cindex integer, 2-byte
+@section @code{.2byte @var{expression} [, @var{expression}]*}
+
+This directive @code{.2byte}, which is available for ELF targets, expects zero
+or more expressions, separated by commas. Each expression is assembled into the
+next two bytes.
+
+@node 4byte
+@cindex @code{4byte} directive
+@cindex four-byte integer
+@cindex integer, 4-byte
+@section @code{.4byte @var{expression} [, @var{expression}]*}
+
+This directive @code{.4byte}, which is available for ELF targets, expects zero
+or more expressions, separated by commas. Each expression is assembled into the
+next four bytes.
+
+@node 8byte
+@cindex @code{8byte} directive
+@cindex eight-byte integer
+@cindex integer, 8-byte
+@section @code{.8byte @var{expression} [, @var{expression}]*}
+
+This directive @code{.8byte}, which is available for ELF targets, expects zero
+or more bignums, separated by commas. For each bignum, it emits
+an 8-byte integer. If the bignum won't fit in 8 bytes, it prints a
+warning message; and just takes the lowest order 8 bytes of the bignum.
+@end ifset
+
@node Deprecated
@section Deprecated Directives
diff --git a/gas/doc/c-arm.texi b/gas/doc/c-arm.texi
index 391c396..29630a5 100644
--- a/gas/doc/c-arm.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/c-arm.texi
@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ The ARM family uses @sc{ieee} floating-point numbers.
@c AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
+@ifclear ELF
@cindex @code{.2byte} directive, ARM
@cindex @code{.4byte} directive, ARM
@cindex @code{.8byte} directive, ARM
@@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ The ARM family uses @sc{ieee} floating-point numbers.
@itemx .4byte @var{expression} [, @var{expression}]*
@itemx .8byte @var{expression} [, @var{expression}]*
These directives write 2, 4 or 8 byte values to the output section.
+@end ifclear
@cindex @code{.align} directive, ARM
@item .align @var{expression} [, @var{expression}]