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Re: forwarded message from H. J. Lu
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de,troup at debian dot org, bug-binutils at gnu dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 10:33:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: forwarded message from H. J. Lu
- References: <20030519234202.GB2085@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <200305201731.h4KHVCAj013785@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:31:12PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:03:52PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > Sorry, please do not install the patch. The bug is in milli64.S.
> > > Operands, including those in directives, are supposed to be separated
> > > by commas. No whitespace is allowed.
> > >
> > > It seems an improvement to binutils has exposed the typo in milli64.S,
> > > although I must say the error message is misleading.
> >
> > Rejecting innocuous whitespace hardly seems an improvement.
>
> OK, I've changed my mind. I did a little testing and the HP assembler
> actually allows whitespace, although the manual does not indicate that
> this is allowed. Thus, we should do the same.
>
> However, I'm still not sure Lu's patch is the correct approach. I'm
> guessing but I think the problem is due to the recent #APP/#NO_APP
> change. I suspect that we were always scrubbing whitespace before.
> The documentation states that if the first line of an input file is
> #NO_APP, white space and comments are not removed from the input
> file. I assume then that the previous default behavior was to
> scrub whitespace when a file didn't start with #NO_APP.
Follow
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-04/msg00403.html
and all the issues it caused.
H.J.