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Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
|> In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980501124359.28262A-100000@mullet.Levels.UniSA.Edu.ou write:
|> > There is a problem with using "/" to start comments, such as those
|> > emitted by gcc's -fverbose-asm. If gas needs to support "/" meaning
|> > the start of a comment anywhere on a line, then the gas division
|> > operator is killed, sometimes silently. For instance:
|> > asm("pushl $FOO/2")
|> > is treated as if the programmer wrote
|> > asm("pushl $FOO")
|> >
|> > Of course, this is only a problem with hand-coded assembly, but it
|> > would be nice to fix gas and gcc. At least on linux, where the only
|> > assembler used with gcc is gas, we should be able to make the
|> > following change without causing too many problems.
|> >
|> > * config/linux.h (ASM_COMMENT_START): Define as "#"
|> > * config/linux-aout.h (ASM_COMMENT_START): Likewise
|> Thanks. I've installed this into egcs.
This is wrong, it breaks m68k-linux, and perhaps all other non-intel linux
port. It must be moved to config/i386/linux.h. There is no such thing as
a universal comment character.
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