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| author | Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> | 2009-06-20 02:52:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> | 2009-06-20 02:52:08 +0000 |
| commit | 90dce00a2aaceca2e7cf857dc70665260cf5cb6f (patch) | |
| tree | c28fb9817fe054405e049654f57bdd8c097f8a68 /gas/doc | |
| parent | 09a24cbf399cbb184c7121403d394e3db416ae71 (diff) | |
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PR 10302
* doc/as.texinfo (Section <ELF "M,S" flag>): Clarify tail merge.
Diffstat (limited to 'gas/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/doc/as.texinfo | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo index e4f7984..fc6794b 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo +++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo @@ -5819,7 +5819,10 @@ constants, each @var{entsize} octets long. Sections with both @code{M} and @code{S} must contain zero terminated strings where each character is @var{entsize} bytes long. The linker may remove duplicates within sections with the same name, same entity size and same flags. @var{entsize} must be an -absolute expression. +absolute expression. For sections with both @code{M} and @code{S}, a string +which is a suffix of a larger string is considered a duplicate. Thus +@code{"def"} will be merged with @code{"abcdef"}; A reference to the first +@code{"def"} will be changed to a reference to @code{"abcdef"+3}. If @var{flags} contains the @code{G} symbol then the @var{type} argument must be present along with an additional field like this: |