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Diffstat (limited to 'gas/doc/as.texinfo')
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/doc/as.texinfo | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo index 4542b93de71..25e85cf0c02 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo +++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo @@ -6232,6 +6232,7 @@ ways: If the optional argument is quoted, it is taken as flags to use for the section. Each flag is a single character. The following flags are recognized: + @table @code @item b bss section (uninitialized data) @@ -6320,6 +6321,7 @@ macros just for that purpose. The optional @var{flags} argument is a quoted string which may contain any combination of the following characters: + @table @code @item a section is allocatable @@ -6339,13 +6341,13 @@ section is a member of a section group section is used for thread-local-storage @item ? section is a member of the previously-current section's group, if any -@item @var{number} +@item @code{<number>} a numeric value indicating the bits to be set in the ELF section header's flags field. Note - if one or more of the alphabetic characters described above is also included in the flags field, their bit values will be ORed into the resulting value. -@item @{target specific} -some targets extend this list with their own types +@item @code{<target specific>} +some targets extend this list with their own flag characters @end table Note - once a section's flags have been set they cannot be changed. There are @@ -6353,9 +6355,10 @@ a few exceptions to this rule however. Processor and application specific flags can be added to an already defined section. The @code{.interp}, @code{.strtab} and @code{.symtab} sections can have the allocate flag (@code{a}) set after they are initially defined, and the @code{.note-GNU-stack} -section may have the executable (@code(x)) flag added. +section may have the executable (@code{x}) flag added. The optional @var{type} argument may contain one of the following constants: + @table @code @item @@progbits section contains data @@ -6369,9 +6372,9 @@ section contains an array of pointers to init functions section contains an array of pointers to finish functions @item @@preinit_array section contains an array of pointers to pre-init functions -@item @@@var{number} +@item @@@code{<number>} a numeric value to be set as the ELF section header's type field. -@item @@@{target specific} +@item @@@code{<target specific>} some targets extend this list with their own types @end table @@ -6412,6 +6415,7 @@ be present along with an additional field like this: The @var{GroupName} field specifies the name of the section group to which this particular section belongs. The optional linkage field can contain: + @table @code @item comdat indicates that only one copy of this section should be retained @@ -6447,6 +6451,7 @@ directive for compatibility with the Solaris assembler: Note that the section name is quoted. There may be a sequence of comma separated flags: + @table @code @item #alloc section is allocatable |