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Re: PATCH: Add .lcomm directive with optional alignment field to x86 port
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, zuxy dot meng at gmail dot com
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:29:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Add .lcomm directive with optional alignment field to x86 port
- References: <m3vdxd9vmp.fsf@redhat.com>
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> + @cindex @code{lcomm} directive, COFF
> + @item .lcomm @var{symbol} , @var{length}[, @var{alignment}]
> + Reserve @var{length} (an absolute expression) bytes for a local common
> + denoted by @var{symbol}. The section and value of @var{symbol} are
> + those of the new local common. The addresses are allocated in the bss
> + section, so that at run-time the bytes start off zeroed. @var{Symbol}
> + is not declared global (@pxref{Global,,@code{.global}}), so is normally
> + not visible to @code{@value{LD}}.
Please reorder the last sentence to avoid having to capitalize
@var{symbol}.
Andreas.
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