Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Jan 4 15:28:00 GMT 2018

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Hi H.J., Hi Jan,

  Any objections to this patch for PR 22553 ?

Cheers
  Nick

diff --git a/gas/doc/c-i386.texi b/gas/doc/c-i386.texi
index 91f5c5a21a..e500e7c86d 100644
--- a/gas/doc/c-i386.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/c-i386.texi
@@ -431,8 +431,17 @@ specifies the desired alignment of the symbol in the bss section.
 
 This directive is only available for COFF based x86 targets.
 
+@cindex @code{largecomm} directive, ELF
+@item .largecomm @var{symbol} , @var{length}[, @var{alignment}]
+This directive behaves in the same way as the @code{comm} directive
+except that the data is placed into the @var{.lbss} section instead of
+the @var{.bss} section @ref{Comm}.
+
+The directive is intended to be used for data which requires a large
+amount of space, and it is only available for ELF based x86_64
+targets.
+
 @c FIXME: Document other x86 specific directives ?  Eg: .code16gcc,
-@c .largecomm
 
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