Re: meaning of .section ".bstext", "ax"

Bai Shuwei <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:56:26 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-assembly
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 14 April 2010 19:06, anil kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to understand assembly code written in arch/x86/boot/header.S code.
> I am not able to grab meaning of following line:
>  .section ".bstext", "ax"
.section name [flags]

.bstext is the section name
a
  section is allocatable
x
  section is executable
>
> Can you tell meaning of this line ?
>
> Thanks,
> Anil
>
> PS: It would be great help if someone can point any link which explain
> code mentioned in this file.
> I am not able to locate any good link using google search engine.
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