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Re: RFA: Remove .not section from x86 assembler
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, cagney at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 07:37:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFA: Remove .not section from x86 assembler
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:12 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> This x86 assembler patch:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00344.html
>
> generates a .note section for .arch directive so that gdb can
> tell which architecture an i386 binary belongs:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00271.html
>
> However, x86 assembly code can have any instructions.
> A .note section doesn't help. Is GDB using the .note section
> today? If not, I'd like to remove it.
>
I will remove it.
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H.J.