[llvm-commits] [PATCH][RFC] Disable data region directives

[Jim Grosbach]

Hi Joe,

I don't understand why this is desirable. Can you elaborate? What's the use case?

-Jim

On Nov 17, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Joe Abbey <jabbey at arxan.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure if other assemblers are affected by this... but Apple cctools-807~393 (Xcode 4.4.1) chokes on .data_region pseudo-ops.  Xcode 4.5.2 doesn't seem to have any problems with it.  
> 
> I propose the following patch to disable data region directive generation:
> 
>   -disable-data-region-directives         - Disable data region directives which older assemblers reject
> 
> Looking back to r157062 I see that this should only affect introspection of object files and fully-linked binaries.  However if there are any other side-effects please let me know.
> 
> Ok to commit?
> 
> Joe
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