On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 12:33 AM Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: > > On 01.08.2023 02:12, Khem Raj wrote: > > Assembler from binutils 2.41 rejects this syntax > > > > .section "name"[, flags...] > > > > where flags could be #alloc, #write, #execstr > > Switch to using ELF syntax > > You mean GNU, not ELF (ELF is describing the object format, not the > syntax used). Feels almost like a regression (I'll mention that to > Alan), which likely went unnoticed so far because Linux had changed > to GNU syntax already in 5.5, to allow building with Clang's > integrated assembler. This aspect may be worth mentioning here as > well.
OK will send v2 > > > .section name[, "flags"[, @type]] > > > > [1] > > https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gas-2.9.1/html_chapter/as_7.html#SEC119 > > > > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> > > Out of curiosity - why were there four instances of the patch? > They all look largely identical; if there are differences, I haven't > spotted them. there should not have been I was a not a subscriber to mailing list, did not realize why it was not appearing on ml :) > > Jan
