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RFA: Remove .not section from x86 assembler
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, cagney at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:12:00 -0700
- Subject: RFA: Remove .not section from x86 assembler
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This x86 assembler patch:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00344.html
generates a .note section for .arch directive so that gdb can
tell which architecture an i386 binary belongs:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00271.html
However, x86 assembly code can have any instructions.
A .note section doesn't help. Is GDB using the .note section
today? If not, I'd like to remove it.
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H.J.