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@ 2009-06-20  7:17 Alan Modra
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From: Alan Modra @ 2009-06-20  7:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Committed.

	PR 10302
	* doc/as.texinfo (Section <ELF "M,S" flag>): Clarify tail merge.

Index: gas/doc/as.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gas/doc/as.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.203
diff -u -p -r1.203 as.texinfo
--- gas/doc/as.texinfo	19 May 2009 16:08:06 -0000	1.203
+++ gas/doc/as.texinfo	20 Jun 2009 02:14:40 -0000
@@ -5819,7 +5819,10 @@ constants, each @var{entsize} octets lon
 @code{S} must contain zero terminated strings where each character is
 @var{entsize} bytes long. The linker may remove duplicates within sections with
 the same name, same entity size and same flags.  @var{entsize} must be an
-absolute expression.
+absolute expression.  For sections with both @code{M} and @code{S}, a string
+which is a suffix of a larger string is considered a duplicate.  Thus
+@code{"def"} will be merged with @code{"abcdef"};  A reference to the first
+@code{"def"} will be changed to a reference to @code{"abcdef"+3}.
 
 If @var{flags} contains the @code{G} symbol then the @var{type} argument must
 be present along with an additional field like this:

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

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