Re: [PATCH] BUG preserve registers

[Andrew Morton]

"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> 
> One possibility is to do something like:
> 
> ud2
> .word __LINE__
> .long 1f
> .section __FILE__
> .linkonce discard
> 1: .asciz __FILE__
> .previous
> 
> Which will put each filename string in it's own section and let the
> linker merge the duplicates.

That would work.  When it didn't I r'ed tfm:

	http://www.gnu.org/manual/gas-2.9.1/html_node/as_102.html

	"This directive is only supported by a few object file formats;
	 as of this writing, the only object file format which supports
	 it is the Portable Executable format used on Windows NT."

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