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Diffstat (limited to 'gas/doc/as.texinfo')
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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: |