From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 2 22:54:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD6414DA5 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00243; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA47727; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:54:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:54:21 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199911030654.WAA47727@vashon.polstra.com> To: spotvin@videotron.ca Subject: Re: gas pseudo-ops In-Reply-To: <381C9A26.E01B254B@videotron.ca> References: <381C9A26.E01B254B@videotron.ca> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <381C9A26.E01B254B@videotron.ca>, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: > Does anyone have any idea where I could find some documentation about > the following gas pseudo-ops? > .type ,@object There is a type associated with symbol in the object files. It can be function (obvious), object (data), or other/unknown. This pseudo-op sets the type of a given symbol. > .previous The assembler maintains a stack of sections. Each time you change to a new section, it pushes the previous one onto the stack. The ".previous" pseudo-op pops the stack and changes back to the previous section. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message