[Nasm-bugs] [Bug 3392823] OMF object output format silently ignores vstart= for sections

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https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392823

H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|Medium                      |MediumLow
           Severity|normal                      |annoyance

--- Comment #1 from H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> ---
You are, of course, correct. The parsing of directives in general quite frankly
sucks; they are pretty much ad hoc everywhere which makes it hard to catch
errors.

I'm always afraid of breaking existing code, for obvious reasons, and future
backwards compatibility becomes an issue but the answer to both of these is
pretty easy: this should be a warning, not an error.

That being said, this is obviously not 2.16 material, and probably not a huge
priority for 2.17 since it after all doesn't affect code generation per se.

However, please do let me say that I'm super appreciative of all your testing
help and very good bug reports. They have been invaluable for the 2.16 work.

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