Re: [PATCH v3] gas: support for .previous, .pushsection and .popsection pseudo ops for coff
Project / Subsystem
binutils / gas
Date
2026-09-09
Proposer
Johannes Khoshnazar-Thoma <johannes@johannesthoma.com>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Adds section management capabilities to gas for COFF.
- • Potential complexity in handling xcoff's predefined section structure.
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- binutils
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- gas
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- 45021ca3-5b69-44be-84ed-7f0cc68ab76c@johannesthoma.com
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- title
- Re: [PATCH v3] gas: support for .previous, .pushsection and .popsection pseudo ops for coff
- headline
- gas: support for .previous, .pushsection and .popsection pseudo ops for coff
- tldr
- Addresses review comments on adding .previous, .pushsection, and .popsection to gas for COFF targets.
- proposer
- Johannes Khoshnazar-Thoma <johannes@johannesthoma.com>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
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- • Adds section management capabilities to gas for COFF.
- • Potential complexity in handling xcoff's predefined section structure.
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- • binutils
- • gas
- • COFF
- • assembler directives
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- —
- date
- 2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
Re: [PATCH v3] gas: support for .previous, .pushsection and .popsection pseudo ops for coff
Johannes Khoshnazar-Thoma responds to review comments on a patch that adds support for .previous, .pushsection, and .popsection pseudo-operations to the gas assembler for COFF targets. He expresses uncertainty about the necessity of xcoff patches given the predefined sections in xcoff, but believes they are needed. The author is seeking further feedback and offering to make additional changes.