[PATCH] gas: support for .pushsection and .popsection pseudo ops for coff

[Jan Beulich]

On 18.07.2026 18:22, Johannes Khoshnazar-Thoma wrote:
> Current Linux kernels make heavy use of the .pushsection and
> .popsection pseudo ops. Normally, the Linux kernel is built
> as an ELF object, where the assembler supports those pseudo
> ops. When compiling the Linux kernel as a Windows/ReactOS
> driver however, it must be compiled as a COFF object, since
> the Windows/ReactOS kernel does not know how to load ELF
> binaries.
> 
> In order to be able to compile the Linux kernel as a COFF
> object (and further on as a PE32 native executable) the
> implementation of those pseudo ops has been copiied from
> the obj-elf.c support code to the obj-coff.c support code.
> It has been verified that the Linux kernel works without
> assembler errors when using an assembler with this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Khoshnazar-Thoma <johannes@johannesthoma.com>
> ---
>  gas/config/obj-coff.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Oh, one other remark: There will want to be at least a minimal testcase
for the two new directives.

Jan