Re: RFA: Remove .not section from x86 assembler

"H.J. Lu" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <CAMe9rOqx4ap1o4Hn-++5oJP-2aO7fzYqR7umsz3kQtnR5aqVYg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:12 PM, H.J. Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> This x86 assembler patch:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00344.html
>
> generates a .note section for .arch directive so that gdb can
> tell which architecture an i386 binary belongs:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00271.html
>
> However, x86 assembly code can have any instructions.
> A .note section doesn't help.  Is GDB using the .note section
> today?  If not, I'd like to remove it.
>

I will remove it.

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H.J.
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