Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:05:45 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: .section ... "ax" vs #alloc, #execinstr |
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0500, Eli Carter wrote: > Some of the assembly files use > .section ".start", "ax" > and others use > .section ".start", #alloc, #execinstr > (and not just for .start, try > find -name \*.S | xargs grep -e '\.section' > ) > > These appear to be equivelent, if not somebody clue me in please. :) > Which is the prefered form? The latter seems to provide a bit more for > the human, so I'd vote that direction... ;)
I guess you're asking about the IOP3xx stuff.
info as mp<tab> msec<tab>
gives all the details. To summarise though:
"a" or "#alloc" - the section is allocatable "x" or "#execinstr" - the section is executable
"ax" seems to be what Linus uses. I used to use the long versions, but changed to the shorter version - less characters to type, but still fairly readable. After all, you don't catch people trying to make ls report stuff like:
file, user read write execute, group read execute, other read execute, 2 links, owner root, group root, 44 kibytes, modified xxxx, name "foo"
(or I hope you don't! 8))
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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