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Re: problem facing while upgrading from v2.13 to v2.16 of binutils
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:00:15AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Inder,
>
> >-------------------------------- TEST SOURCE (test.s)
> > .section .text.__GLOBAL__D__dummyconstructor,"ax",%progbits
> > .align 2
> > .ascii "__GLOBAL__D__dummyconstructor\000"
> > .align 2
> > .word -16777172
> > .type __GLOBAL__D__dummyconstructor, %function
> >__GLOBAL__D__dummyconstructor:
> > mov r0, r0
> > mov r0, r0
> > mov r0, r0
> > mov r0, r0
>
> The problem, I suspect is that you are missing a ".global" directive in
> the above assembler source. so if you add:
>
> .global __GLOBAL__D__dummyconstructor
>
> jut after the ".type" line, I think that you might see the disassembly
> that you are expecting.
Shouldn't it show up in the obdump output even if it's a local symbol?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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