Re: linker testsuite patch...

[Scott Bambrough <sbambrough at storm dot ca>]

It is the syntax used by gcc.  Here is the assembler output of hello
world.

	.file   "hw.c"
	.section	.rodata
	.align  2
.LC0:
     	.ascii  "Hello world!\n\000"
	.text
	.align  2
	.global main
	.type   main, function
main:
     	@ args = 0, pretend = 0, frame = 8
	@ frame_needed = 1, uses_anonymous_args = 0
	mov	ip, sp
	stmfd   sp!, {fp, ip, lr, pc}
	sub	fp, ip, #4
	sub	sp, sp, #8
	str	r0, [fp, #-16]
	str	r1, [fp, #-20]
	ldr	r0, .L2
	bl	printf
	mov	r0, r3
	ldmea   fp, {fp, sp, pc}
.L3:
    	.align  2
.L2:
    	.word   .LC0
	.size   main, .-main
	.ident  "GCC: (GNU) 3.3 20020918 (experimental)"


On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 07:24, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Scott Bambrough wrote:
> > --- src.orig/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvsb/define.s	Mon Nov 19 15:32:02 2001
> > +++ src/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvsb/define.s	Wed Oct 30 21:01:17 2002
> > @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
> >  	.data
> >  	.globl protected
> > -	.type protected,@object
> > +	.type protected, object
> >  protected:
> >  	.globl hidden
> > -	.type hidden,@object
> > +	.type hidden, object
> >  hidden:
> >  	.globl internal
> > -	.type internal,@object
> > +	.type internal, object
> >  internal:
> 
> Hmm, this is the comment in gas/config/obj-elf.c:obj_elf_type
> 
> /* Handle the ELF .type pseudo-op.  This sets the type of a symbol.
>    There are five syntaxes:
> 
>    The first (used on Solaris) is
>        .type SYM,#function
>    The second (used on UnixWare) is
>        .type SYM,@function
>    The third (reportedly to be used on Irix 6.0) is
>        .type SYM STT_FUNC
>    The fourth (used on NetBSD/Arm and Linux/ARM) is
>        .type SYM,%function
>    The fifth (used on SVR4/860) is
>        .type SYM,"function"
>    */
> 
> Seems like you've found a sixth syntax accepted by gas.  ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Alan Modra
> IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
-- 
Scott Bambrough <sbambrough@storm.ca>