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Re: [PATCH] Re: .macro behavior
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:31:37 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: .macro behavior
- References: <s208f484.036@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >> only allows [[:alpha:]_$][[:alnum:]_$]*
> >
> >I think this restriction is actually good. Calls for the least
> >amount of surprises when applying the same macro to different
> >GAS ports.
>
> Not so. If, on IA-64 as an example, I want to define an
> instruction-like macro, I need to have '.' as an acceptable character
> for the macro name.
I thought you were talking about macro *parameter names*, as
that's the change that exposed the mistake in the MMIX
test-case. I agree the macro names themselves should be
freely chosen (anything but whitespace or whatever).
brgds, H-P