On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:33:13AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Tim Abbott wrote: > > On Fri, 1 May 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote: > >>> +#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA .section ".data.page_aligned", "aw", @progbits > >>> +#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS .section ".bss.page_aligned", "aw", @nobits > >> It is my understanding that the linker will automatically > >> assume nobits for section names starting with .bss and likewise > >> progbits for section names starting with .data - so we can leave them out? > > > > I believe that is correct. > > > > ... but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. > > It's better to be fully explicit when macroizing this kind of stuff. > This is part of why macroizing it is good: it means we end up with *one* > place that determines this stuff, not some magic heuristics in the linker. Do you know if we can use % in place of @? I could see that gas supports both - at least in trunk in cvs. Sam
