.note.GNU-stack section syntax

[Charles Bailey]

Hi,

In asm files designed to make elf object files I've come across use of a 
section such as:

section .note.GNU-stack

I believe it is used to prevent an executable stack.

This syntax works for nasm but not for yasm, for which this works:

section ".note.GNU-stack"

Unfortunately, for nasm, this causes the quotes to appear in the section 
name in the output object file.

I'm reluctant to call this a bug, but it is a nasm compatibility issue 
and it currently affects libSDL, which is a little strange as libSDL's 
configure chooses yasm in preference to nasm, but then fails to compile 
with yasm.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Charles.