[PATCH] Add support for subsections to the ELF assembler. Fixes PR8717.

[Sid Manning]

On 06/07/2013 10:36 AM, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
>> Hexagon's gcc emits negative subsection numbers.  The only documented place
>> I could find that suggested this is OK was in gcc/config.in,
>> HAS_GAS_SUBSECTION_ORDERING.  I looked for some documented range for this
>> but could not find any.
>
> I guess we can add support for that, but please check with the gcc
> devs if this is intentional and if so why and what is the common usage
> (values, how many subsections per file, etc).

Rafael,

Sorry for the delay in my response I was on vacation.  The negative 
values are used to assist in small data sorting.  I think that the 
minimum value will be -8.  I don't know of any specific limits on the 
number of subsections.

Thanks,

>
> Cheers,
> Rafael


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