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At 10:50 PM 2/9/2002 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > .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."


So, all we need to do is port Linux to run under NT? ;)


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Stevie-O

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