On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, H.J. Lu wrote: > Since the .code16gcc directive was added to binutils back in 1999, > it is older than the minimum binutils required for x86 GCC. There > is no need to specify a separate minimum binutils for it.
It's not clear to me why the compiler should be involved in providing this functionality. Can the assembler simply support '-mcode16gcc' command-line flag, which would have the effect of enabling .code16gcc for the whole translation unit? That way, you could simply add -Wa,-mcode16gcc to the GCC command line and avoid the need to patch the compiler. Am I missing something? Thanks. Alexander
