[LLVMdev] Add Support For .bss Named Section Directive For Darwin Targets

[Nicholas White]

Thanks - how would I go about getting this committed?

Nick

On 30 September 2013 13:50, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
> LGTM
>
> On 29 September 2013 06:08, Nicholas White <n.j.white at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I believe it's a feature missing in MC -
>> https://github.com/opensource-apple/cctools/blob/4da58fd2fc026317ed9e9ef1feabf21ed0bb7a81/cctools-836/as/i386.c
>> line 539 adds support for the .bss directive if certain variables are
>> defined, and mainline gas supports it on all ARM targets:
>> https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/ARM-Directives.html . Supporting the
>> directive on all Darwin targets could be considered an extension though.
>> Thanks -
>>
>> On Sunday, 29 September 2013, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this an extension to what cctools' assembler provides or a missing
>>> feature in MC?
>>>
>>> On 28 September 2013 18:48, Nicholas White <n.j.white at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi - I've attached a patch to make the assembly parser recognise the
>>> > .bss directive on Darwin targets as a switch to the (__DATA,__bss)
>>> > section. The ELF & COFF assembly parsers already recongnise the .bss
>>> > directive. I've added a test case for it too. Thanks -
>>> >
>>> > Nick
>>> >
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