There is a configure test for the assembler .previous directive, and,
as a fallback, for .popsection.
glibc now only supports ELF. For ELF, the GNU assembler has supported
.previous since version 2.2 (support added by
Mon Jul 19 15:21:20 1993 Ken Raeburn (raeburn@rtl.cygnus.com)
* config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_previous): New function.
(previous_section, previous_subsection): New vars.
(obj_elf_section): Save current place in case DWARF code wants us
to pop back to it. Handle unquoted section name as well as quoted
section name. Don't crash on invalid strings.
(obj_pseudo_table): Handle new pseudos "previous", "2byte", and
"4byte".
). Thus this configure test is obsolete, and this patch removes it
(and with it the fallback .popsection test).
Tested for x86_64 and x86 (testsuite, and that installed shared
libraries are unchanged by the patch).