Re: missing .def/.endef

[Jose Navarro]

Kevin Ryde wrote:
> 
> Thanks, alas they seem to have simply succeeded.  Perhaps you can see
> whether a foo.s containing just the following works.
>         .type   sym,@function

fails

>         .type   _sym,@function

fails

>         .text
>         .type   _sym,@function

fails

> The same for .size, if you can be bothered.
>         .size   sym,1
> or
>         .size   _sym,1

All three .size options also fail, always with a warning saying that
.type or .size pseudo-op was used outside of .def/.endef and thus ignored.

> In any case we're wanting something small that provokes a failure.
> You could point us at some actual doco if there's some other than the
> gas manual.
> 
> Oh, but that's unless .type and .size are necessary or desirable in
> COFF and we should add .def/.endef somehow.

Compilation with empty TYPE and SIZE macros in config.m4 seems to work.
I haven't been able to test execution because of other problems at the
moment (even make check fails to get going).

Cheers,
    -jose'