[Bug gas/31021] as on armv7 rejects @progbits

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31021

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi Jan,

(In reply to Jan Engelhardt from comment #0)
> The GNU info page for GAS from binutils-2.40 specifies in section 7.85
> (".section NAME") that
> 
> >    The optional TYPE argument may contain one of the following
> constants:
> >
> >‘@progbits’
> >    section contains data
> 
> The armv7(hl)-elf-linux target however does not understand @progbits.

Read on.  A couple of paragraphs later it says:

   Note on targets where the @ character is the start of a 
   comment (eg ARM) then another character is used instead. 
   For example the ARM port uses the % character.

Cheers
  Nick

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