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HELP with linker script!!!

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Fri Apr 1 14:34:00 GMT 2005 
"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:

> ----Original Message----
>>From: Nick Clifton
>>Sent: 01 April 2005 15:02
>
>
>> The other way is hackier, but it avoids the warnings:
>> 
>>    int foo __attribute__((section (".cached_bss,\"w\",@nobits#")));
>> 
>> This assumes that the hash character (#) is the start-of-line-comment
>> character for the particular instruction set you are using.  If you have
>> a look at the assembler emitted by GCC you can see why:
>> 
>>          .section        .cached_bss,"w",@nobits#,"aw",@progbits
>> 
>> The hash stops GAS from interpreting the
>> 
>>    ,"aw",@probits
>> 
>> which gcc has appended to the name of the section...
>
>   <koff>  *start*-of-line comment character .........  <g>
>
>   You could either add a \n before the # or use a ';' or whatever the port
> uses for the mid-line comment character.......
>
>   And boy, is that _ever_ a gross hack!  (I quite like it!)

This will fail within #NO_APP.

Andreas.

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