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 Join Data and Text Sections: `-R'
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    `-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.  (
 Sections and Relocation Sections.)
 
    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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