Re: [9fans] 8a: getting the address of a label

[Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:54:10AM +1100, Bruce Ellis said:
> you can do this with the current ?a and ?l.
> just go crazy working out what the TEXT
> directive actually does.  there is no need
> for it to be only used at the beginning of
> a function.

Is there any guarantee that the TEXT symbols will be laid out in the order
they appear in the file?

Also, if I remember correctly there are some checks
if PUSH/POP instructions are balanced (which I currently disabled). I am
sure that making some labels TEXT directives will break it even further ...

Thanks,
	Lucho

>
> brucee
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Latchesar Ionkov" <lucho@ionkov.net>
> To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:42 AM
> Subject: [9fans] 8a: getting the address of a label
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am still playing with the gcc port ...
> >
> > It would be very helpful, if Plan9 assembler and loader allow getting the
> > addresses of the labels. The exception handling code is messy enough even
> > without me trying to avoid using label addresses :( Also it would be useful
> > for better implementation of the switch statement, as well as some gcc
> > specific features like __label__ variables.
> >
> > Is there a chance that a patch that implements that will be accepted?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lucho