[Bug gas/22553] .largecomm, .lbss, .ldata, and .lrodata are still not documented after many, many years

[john at buu dot ac.th]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22553

--- Comment #7 from john at buu dot ac.th ---
Nick Clifton,

Thank you.  I am sorry I mixed in the section names with the directives.  

I suspect the section name thing uses unwritten or perhaps Red Hat in-house
non-public rules, and I just need to compile things to assembly with each new
version of the compiler toolchain to learn what to use, and I know how to do
that.  Convincing others to follow the unwritten rules will be hard, but at
least now .largecomm exists and that's definitely a positive step and quite
helpful.

Thanks again!  JGH

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From: nickc at redhat dot com address@hidden
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:41 PM
To: John Gatewood Ham
Subject: [Bug gas/22553] .largecomm, .lbss, .ldata, and .lrodata are still not
documented after many, many years

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22553

--- Comment #6 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi John,

  I have checked in the patch to document the .largecomm directive.

  I do not think that .ldata, .lbss or .lrodata exists as assembler
  directives, so I do not plan on documenting these unless you can
  demonstrate a way to reproduce them.

  A scan of the x86 assembler sources indicates that there are still
  some other undocumented directives however: .code16gcc, .secrel32,
  .operand_check, .sse_check, .disallow_index_reg, and .allow_index_reg.

  So I will leave this PR open as a reminder that they ought to be
  documented one day.

Cheers
  Nick

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