Note that some flags to the COFF version of .section remove attributes rather

than setting them.

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index e6a461621b4503378d7264ce931c2f4faf4d79f0..d7259a5cd645668501acb45b9678f67169eb961c 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-02-21  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+       * doc/as.texinfo (Section): Note that some flags to the COFF
+       version of .section remove attributes rather than setting them.
+
 2001-02-20  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@hxi.com>
 
        * tc-pdp11.c: Fix formatting.

diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
index dc377b1363bf5063182287fe73f328bb48c14f4c..3bc96812d1657d8bfd98281e8e24961460c1844d 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo
+++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
@@ -4640,7 +4640,9 @@ shared section (meaningful for PE targets)
 
 If no flags are specified, the default flags depend upon the section name.  If
 the section name is not recognized, the default will be for the section to be
-loaded and writable.
+loaded and writable.  Note the @code{n} and @code{w} flags remove attributes
+from the section, rather than adding them, so if they are used on their own it
+will be as if no flags had been specified at all.
 
 If the optional argument to the @code{.section} directive is not quoted, it is
 taken as a subsegment number (@pxref{Sub-Sections}).