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Re: Certainly not a typo in binuti

From: Douglas B Rupp <rupp at gnat dot com>
To: Philippe Vouters <philippe dot vouters at laposte dot net>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, Office of OpenVMS Programs <OpenVMS dot Programs at hp dot com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:13:45 -0700
Subject: Re: Certainly not a typo in binuti
References: <4D931F4D.4020606@laposte.net> <E3EBFF27-2CEE-4B81-8B55-CD87E51CE072@adacore.com> <4D935897.4080305@laposte.net> <90BB3DA8-CE4B-4AF4-9F41-3A3E97D8A9D5@adacore.com>

On 3/31/2011 2:55 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:

Honestly I am a bit skeptical about this feature.  The primary purpose of gas is to
assemble what gcc generates and IMHO uppercasing would better be done by gcc.

In particular uppercasing is somewhat ambiguous:  should all symbols be converted or
only the exported one ?

We are speaking only of hand-coded assembler, correct? AFAIK all HP branded VMS compilers generate object code directly.

References:
- Certainly not a typo in binutils-2.21.51/bfd/configure.com for VMS/Alpha targets !
  - From: Philippe Vouters
- Re: Certainly not a typo in binutils-2.21.51/bfd/configure.com for VMS/Alpha targets !
  - From: Tristan Gingold
- Re: Certainly not a typo in binuti
  - From: Philippe Vouters
- Re: Certainly not a typo in binuti
  - From: Tristan Gingold

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