Landing: 636a636c473a
Project / Subsystem
binutils / gas/coff
Date
2026-09-11
Author
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>
Commit
636a636c473a55d3420ac4bffd1dd4c223b96408
Source
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- gas/coff: Support .previous and .{push,pop}section pseudo ops
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- Adds support for section management directives to the COFF object file format assembler.
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- Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>
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- • gas
- • COFF
- • assembler
- • linker script
- • cross-compilation
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- date
- 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
The GNU Assembler (gas) now supports .previous, .pushsection, and .popsection pseudo-operations for COFF targets. This enables finer control over section placement and manipulation, crucial for tasks like compiling the Linux kernel for Windows-based systems (ReactOS).