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problem with fill on IA64 linker

Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
Sun Feb 17 01:02:00 GMT 2002 
> From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:03:52 +1030
> 
> +precedence.  See (@pxref{Output Section Fill}) for details on the fill
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That should have been just "@xref{Output Section Fill}," without "See"
and without the parens.  @xref generates "See" automatically, whereas
the parentheses look mighty awkward in this context.

> +necessary.  If the fill expression is a simple hex number, ie. a string
> +of hex digit starting with "0x" and without a trailing "k" or "M", then
> +an arbitrarily long sequence of hex digits can be used to specify the
> +fill pattern;  Leading zeros become part of the pattern too.  For all
> +other cases, including extra parentheses or a unary '+', the fill
> +pattern is the four least significant bytes of the value of the
> +expression.  In all cases, the number is big-endian.

This will look much nicer in the printed manual if you use markup
instead of the ASCII art: @samp{0x} instead of "0x", @code{+} instead
of '+', etc.

HTH
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