Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:52:34 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pop previous section in alternative.c |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Obviously, it would have been really nice if something like the assembler > had caught it with some simple sanity-test (ie I think the .size thing > would be a good sanity check _regardless_), so in that sense it's our bug > that might have been avoided with soem sanity testing, but on the other > hand, I can well understand that gas didn't do it - since it would matter > only for totally buggy code that was never emitted by the compiler. >
Agreed.
> Gas historically used to not do any sanity-checking what-so-ever, and was > very much meant to be just for compiler output (which is why #APP exists > in the first place - to mark places that aren't pure compiler input). It's > actually improved immensely in that area and now is useful as a > traditional human-usable assembler with lots of support like macros etc.
Indeed it has.
-hpa
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