new gas directives with precise control over endian & size

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 03:16:28 GMT 2021


On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:02:09PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2021 12:18, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
> > Fixups in gas are going to be a problem, unless you only allow
> > expressions that can be resolved at the point they appear.
> 
> sure, but .byte/.word/etc... already have that problem right ?

Many targets support fixups with a range of sizes.  What they
don't do in general is support fixups with opposite endian.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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