Stuffing all the files together and compiling the resulting blob with the main program is a terrible idea. Some files, namely the .S ones, must be run trough the C preprocessor before assembling them (#2437). Beside that the aggregate may be mis-compiled due to the presence of some flags that affect the following code. For example let's consider two files, a.s and b.s a.s ``` fn1: ret .data data1: .word 0 ``` b.s ``` fn2: ret ``` Now, fn1 and fn2 will be both placed in the .text section as intended if the two files are compiled separately. But if we merge them the `.data` flag ends up placing fn2 in the wrong section! This fixes a nasty crash where musl's memset ended up in the non-executable data segment, leading to too many hours of head-scratching.
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