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Re: Making generic ld testcases pass on more targets
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:31:25PM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > But please make the name less collision-prone. How about
> > ".gnu.dc.a"?
>
> Hmm. Do you know of some other assembler that uses dc.a?
Nope. But I know of some other that use .dc.C (C=b,w).
It just seems painlessly safer to use a unique prefix, now that
we don't *have* to cast *any* doubt whatsoever of colliding with
any pre-existing convention. I mean, why not?
> > While you're at it, some fixed-size relocs would be nice too:
> > ".gnu.dc.1" .. ".gnu.dc.4" (and 8 for 64-bitters).
>
> You already have them. Lots of 'em. See read.c potable.
But still only with the "dc." prefix and similar.
brgds, H-P