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Join
data and text sections: -R
-R
tells as to write the object file as if all data-section data lives in
the text section. This is only done at the very last moment: your binary
data are the same, but data section parts are relocated differently. The
data section part of your object file is zero bytes long because all its
bytes are appended to the text section. (See Sections
and relocation.) When you specify -R,
it would be possible to generate shorter address displacements (because
we do not have to cross between text and data section). We refrain from
doing this simply for compatibility with older versions of as.
In future, -R
may work this way.
When
as
is configured for COFF output, this option is only useful if you use sections
named .text
and .data.
-R
is not supported for any of the HPPA targets. Using -R
generates a warning from as.
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