On Mon, 2023-07-24 at 14:58 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hi Ben, On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 5:47 PM Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: Ben Hutchings <benh@xxxxxxxxxx> gas supports several different forms for .section for ELF targets, including: .section NAME [, "FLAGS"[, @TYPE[,FLAG_SPECIFIC_ARGUMENTS]]] and: .section "NAME"[, #FLAGS...] In several places we use a mix of these two forms: .section NAME, #FLAGS... A current development snapshot of binutils (2.40.50.20230611) treats this mixed syntax as an error.
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I verified there is no difference in the generated object files with my current toolchain (GNU assembler version 2.38 (m68k-linux-gnu) using BFD version (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.38). Do you think it's worthwhile to fast-track this for v6.5, or is it fine to queue this for v6.6?
The new version of binutils has been in Debian unstable for over a month now. I think this should be fast-tracked. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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