[PATCH] gas: deprecate .vtable_entry and .vtable_inherit

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 12/06/2026 07:42, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 11.06.2026 15:50, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>> These ELF directives were a GNU extension to support the C++ ABI
>> that was in use before the introduction of the generic C++ ABI in
>> GCC-3.0.  They're obsolete now and many newer targets simply
>> do not provide the back-end support for them.
>>
>> Flag them as deprecated in the NEWS file, and remove the documentation
>> for them.  Warn (once) if the directive is used in a source file.
> 
> Okay with ...
> 
>> --- a/gas/NEWS
>> +++ b/gas/NEWS
>> @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
>>   -*- text -*-
>> +Changes in 2.47:
> 
> ... this line omitted. See e.g. commit 48df1644d270 as to when these lines
> are intended to appear.
> 
> Jan

OK, thanks.  Fixed and pushed.
R.