Re: Generating ancilliary sections with gas (fwd)

2011-07-08 Thread Dave Martin
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Michael Hope wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Michael Hope >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Nicolas Pitre >> > wrote: >> >> Hello Michael, >> >> >> >> We do have more and more instances of the

Re: Generating ancilliary sections with gas (fwd)

2011-07-03 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Michael Hope wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Michael Hope wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Nicolas Pitre > > wrote: > >> Hello Michael, > >> > >> We do have more and more instances of the following issues turning up in > >> the kernel requiring toolchain

Re: Generating ancilliary sections with gas (fwd)

2011-07-03 Thread Michael Hope
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Michael Hope wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Nicolas Pitre > wrote: >> Hello Michael, >> >> We do have more and more instances of the following issues turning up in >> the kernel requiring toolchain assistance to solve the problem properly. >> Could you

Re: Generating ancilliary sections with gas (fwd)

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Hope
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Hello Michael, > > We do have more and more instances of the following issues turning up in > the kernel requiring toolchain assistance to solve the problem properly. > Could you or someone from your team follow this up please? Hi Nicholas.

Re: Generating ancilliary sections with gas (fwd)

2011-06-14 Thread Dave Martin
t; > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:16:48 + > From: Dave Martin > To: binut...@sourceware.org > Cc: linaro-toolchain > Subject: Generating ancilliary sections with gas > > Hi all, > > Every now and again I come across a situ

Generating ancilliary sections with gas (fwd)

2011-06-13 Thread Nicolas Pitre
+ From: Dave Martin To: binut...@sourceware.org Cc: linaro-toolchain Subject: Generating ancilliary sections with gas Hi all, Every now and again I come across a situation where it would be really useful to be able to query the assembler state during assembly: for example, to query and do

Re: Generating ancilliary sections with gas

2011-02-02 Thread Dave Martin
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Alan Modra wrote: > Have you seen http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-08/msg00121.html ? That's interesting--- I hadn't fully understood what this did. I'm not sure it solves my problem though: I need to generate ancillary sectiions relating for normal section

Re: Generating ancilliary sections with gas

2011-02-02 Thread Alan Modra
Have you seen http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-08/msg00121.html ? -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain

Generating ancilliary sections with gas

2011-02-01 Thread Dave Martin
Hi all, Every now and again I come across a situation where it would be really useful to be able to query the assembler state during assembly: for example, to query and do something based on the current section name. This makes it possible to write generic macros to do certain things which otherw

Generating ancilliary sections with gas

2011-01-28 Thread Dave Martin
Hi all, With gas, does anyone know of a way to create a section whose name is based on that of the current section? The specific requirement is to be able to define a generic macro like the example "fixup" below, whose purpose is to record ancilliary data related to some other section. To illust