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| -rw-r--r-- | gas/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/doc/as.texinfo | 5 |
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diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index 075d6f0..0e6f874 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-06-20 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> + + PR 10302 + * doc/as.texinfo (Section <ELF "M,S" flag>): Clarify tail merge. + +======= 2009-06-19 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> * config/tc-s390.c (md_gather_operands): Accept an instruction 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: |