gas: .sizeof.() / .startof.() creating redundant symbol table entries

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Apr 30 13:34:37 GMT 2021


Hi Jan,

> I know these are undocumented, so perhaps one ought to expect quirks,
> but the other day I've noticed that multiple uses of these with
> identical operands will each create their own symbol table entry.

I think that this is a bug.  Probably the creator of these pseudo ops
never thought that they might be used on the same name multiple times.

Cheers
   Nick




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