On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, Jim Wilson wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org> 
> wrote:
> > I created a patch on top of upstream binutils for a feature I need which
> > should be universally useful as well. Now I have 3 questions for you:
> >
> > 1) Does it look sane enough?
> 
> You added the option docs into the .section docs.  It is certainly OK
> to talk about it here, but there is also a list of all options in the
> docs, and the new option needs to be documented here also.  One could
> perhaps refer to the other.

OK.

> Otherwise, the patch looks OK, but I have little experience using 
> macros, so I'm not sure if there might be a better way to do this.

I provided a macro based example to simplify things.  But my primary use 
case involves inline assembly from C code, such as included by the 
put_user() macro in the Linux kernel.

> I'm also not sure how the other binutils maintainers would feel about 
> the design.  It would have to be discussed on the binutils mailing 
> list.

Fair enough.  Given your other comments I'll follow up on that list.

Thanks for the review.


Nicolas
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