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Re: Where to add .alias and .secalias support?
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 01 May 2003 15:21:01 -0700
- Subject: Re: Where to add .alias and .secalias support?
- References: <20030501103828.A26941@lucon.org>
"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> The .alias directive declares an alias for a label, a function name,
> or a symbolic constant.
Sounds like .rename in PPC XCOFF, q.v. There was some reason it was
needed for XCOFF, although I've forgotten what that reason was.
> The .secalias directive declares an alias for a section name.
Sounds useless.
> I'd like to add them to gas. Should I make it ia64 specific or more
> generic?
I would vote for making them ia64 specific. We can turn them into
generic code if anybody sees any point to it.
Ian