.section 2

[Albert van der Horst]

I would like to report the following defect found in :

GNU assembler 2.11.92.0.10 (SuSE)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `i486-suse-linux'.

The keyword .section is not sufficiently documented.

Apparently subkeywords like progbits don't work on the
i386 line of assemblers. Even if generating elf files only
a.out sections are supported.
This is nowhere stated in the documentation.
Yours truly, Albert
--
Albert van der Horst,Oranjestr 8,3511 RA UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
Q.: Where is Bin? A.: With his ma. Q.: That makes the Saudi's
terrorists, then?  A.: No, George already owns their oil.
address@hidden     http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst