Landing: 6dc6342541de
Project / Subsystem
binutils / gas
Date
2026-05-22
Author
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>
Commit
6dc6342541de90fbe8726c11c5a45f9475ffb815
Source
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- Gas: Clarify documentation about @ and % usage in .section directive
- tldr
- The assembler documentation now clearly explains when to use '@' or '%' for section directives.
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- Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>
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- • assembler
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- • ELF
- • ARM
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- 2026-05-22T00:00:00.000Z
The documentation for the .section assembler directive in the ELF format was updated to clarify when to use the @ and % characters. Some targets treat @ as the start of a comment (e.g., ARM), and on those platforms, % should be used instead. On platforms where neither @ nor % start a comment, they can be used interchangeably.