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[binutils-gdb] Document character escape sequences
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at sourceware dot org>
- To: bfd-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 21 Dec 2016 08:42:28 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] Document character escape sequences
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=9962fe293d16e1e1e4d05154e751fc7576226954
commit 9962fe293d16e1e1e4d05154e751fc7576226954
Author: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Dec 21 19:07:55 2016 +1030
Document character escape sequences
PR gas/10946
* doc/as.texinfo (Chars): Document escape sequences.
Diff:
---
gas/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gas/doc/as.texinfo | 13 +++++++------
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 3b86e47..6c923c3 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-12-21 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+ PR gas/10946
+ * doc/as.texinfo (Chars): Document escape sequences.
+
2016-12-20 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-sub.d: New test.
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
index 4b14e08..d83d2b3 100644
--- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo
+++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
@@ -3066,12 +3066,13 @@ sequence.
@cindex single character constant
@cindex character, single
@cindex constant, single character
-A single character may be written as a single quote immediately
-followed by that character. The same escapes apply to characters as
-to strings. So if you want to write the character backslash, you
-must write @kbd{'\\} where the first @code{\} escapes the second
-@code{\}. As you can see, the quote is an acute accent, not a
-grave accent. A newline
+A single character may be written as a single quote immediately followed by
+that character. Some backslash escapes apply to characters, @code{\b},
+@code{\f}, @code{\n}, @code{\r}, @code{\t}, and @code{\"} with the same meaning
+as for strings, plus @code{\'} for a single quote. So if you want to write the
+character backslash, you must write @kbd{'\\} where the first @code{\} escapes
+the second @code{\}. As you can see, the quote is an acute accent, not a grave
+accent. A newline
@ifclear GENERIC
@ifclear abnormal-separator
(or semicolon @samp{;})