* doc/as.texinfo (Section <ELF "M,S" flag>): Clarify tail merge.
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Alan Modra 2009-06-20 02:52:08 +00:00
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2009-06-20 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
PR 10302
* doc/as.texinfo (Section <ELF "M,S" flag>): Clarify tail merge.
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2009-06-19 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* config/tc-s390.c (md_gather_operands): Accept an instruction

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@ -5819,7 +5819,10 @@ constants, each @var{entsize} octets long. Sections with both @code{M} and
@code{S} must contain zero terminated strings where each character is
@var{entsize} bytes long. The linker may remove duplicates within sections with
the same name, same entity size and same flags. @var{entsize} must be an
absolute expression.
absolute expression. For sections with both @code{M} and @code{S}, a string
which is a suffix of a larger string is considered a duplicate. Thus
@code{"def"} will be merged with @code{"abcdef"}; A reference to the first
@code{"def"} will be changed to a reference to @code{"abcdef"+3}.
If @var{flags} contains the @code{G} symbol then the @var{type} argument must
be present along with an additional field like this: