Documentation for .largecomm and friends
Jan Beulich
JBeulich@suse.com
Thu Jan 4 15:42:00 GMT 2018
>>> On 04.01.18 at 16:28, <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi H.J., Hi Jan,
>
> Any objections to this patch for PR 22553 ?
Sounds plausible, thanks for doing this. What about "and friends"
though?
Jan
> --- a/gas/doc/c-i386.texi
> +++ b/gas/doc/c-i386.texi
> @@ -431,8 +431,17 @@ specifies the desired alignment of the symbol in the
> bss section.
>
> This directive is only available for COFF based x86 targets.
>
> +@cindex @code{largecomm} directive, ELF
> +@item .largecomm @var{symbol} , @var{length}[, @var{alignment}]
> +This directive behaves in the same way as the @code{comm} directive
> +except that the data is placed into the @var{.lbss} section instead of
> +the @var{.bss} section @ref{Comm}.
> +
> +The directive is intended to be used for data which requires a large
> +amount of space, and it is only available for ELF based x86_64
> +targets.
> +
> @c FIXME: Document other x86 specific directives ? Eg: .code16gcc,
> -@c .largecomm
>
> @end table
>
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