[Bug binutils/10379] Objdump does not disassemble instructions

[nickc at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com  2009-07-14 16:49 
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Hi Pierre,

  This behaviour appears to be for compatibility with the Irix 5  assembler.  By
default any symbol declared with the .global (or .globl) pseudo-op is assumed to
mark the start of region of data, not code.  Hence in your test case objdump
believes that it is showing raw data, not instructions, and so it does not
disassemble them.

  The workaround is to add a (code) section name after the symbol name in the
.global pseudo-op.  Ie change the first line of your test case to:

         .global   write .text

This is an (undocumented) extension to the normal behaviour of the .global
pseudo-op.  So I guess I had better start writing some prose... 

Cheers
  Nick



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