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Re: [PATCH] Re: .macro behavior
- From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- To: <hp at bitrange dot com>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:12:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: .macro behavior
>No, thanks, I don't like MMIX being accused of being
>"inconsistent" like that. It *is* consistent - all trailing
>":"s are chopped off. I think I now remember why; it's not
>really related to ":" as separating namespaces, but the main
>reason is so I could run the binutils test-suite! Most tests
>"unportably" assumes that ":" is a label delimiter and not part
>of the label. Maybe I should insiste that tests be rewritten
>and labels there be defined as "label .set ." :-)
I didn't mean to offend you. Do you have an alternative suggestion for
the wording then?
Jan