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Diffstat (limited to 'gas/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/doc/as.texinfo | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo index 4fe0ef4..dfe7860 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo +++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo @@ -5964,9 +5964,21 @@ For ELF targets, the @code{.type} directive is used like this: This sets the type of symbol @var{name} to be either a function symbol or an object symbol. There are five different syntaxes supported for the @var{type description} field, in order to provide -compatibility with various other assemblers. The syntaxes supported are: +compatibility with various other assemblers. + +Because some of the characters used in these syntaxes (such as @samp{@@} and +@samp{#}) are comment characters for some architectures, some of the syntaxes +below do not work on all architectures. The first variant will be accepted by +the GNU assembler on all architectures so that variant should be used for +maximum portability, if you do not need to assemble your code with other +assemblers. + +The syntaxes supported are: @smallexample + .type <name> STT_FUNCTION + .type <name> STT_OBJECT + .type <name>,#function .type <name>,#object @@ -5978,9 +5990,6 @@ compatibility with various other assemblers. The syntaxes supported are: .type <name>,"function" .type <name>,"object" - - .type <name> STT_FUNCTION - .type <name> STT_OBJECT @end smallexample @end ifset @end ifset |