On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 09:51:41AM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> > I think we shouldn't do this except when targetting the (buggy) llvm
> > assembler.
> > Specifying section flags just on first .section directive and not others
> > is correct, there is no point repeating that and GNU as (but I think many
> > other assemblers) has been supporting it that way forever.
>
> But are there any negative effects with specifying the flags multiple
> times for GNU as? If not, then it seems simpler to generate the form
> that “all” assemblers accept.
It makes the assembler files unnecessarily larger and harder to read.
Jakub
