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Re: RFC/RFA: Improve definition of ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:53:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC/RFA: Improve definition of ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE
- References: <20020726002049.GD760@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:20:49PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> It seems to me that any assembler with a
> .size directive ought to be modern enough to accept the expression
> ".-foo".
I don't think this is actually true. Better try this
on Solaris, Irix, and SCO.
I'd be willing to go the other way and always use the
intermediate symbol though.
r~