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Re: Minor PA GAS testsuite fix
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:51:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: Minor PA GAS testsuite fix
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
> hppa-linux, but I can't see why this one should fail on any PA target,
> or at least cannot be modified to pass for SOM. After all, it's not a
> generic test.
Actually, I'm surprised it's working under linux too.
The problem is the generic parsing code interprets the '!' as an operator
for the expression following the .word directive -- we never get the chance
to interpret it as a line separator.
In fact, the PA assembly language itself is ambiguous in numerous ways due
to HP's use of '!' as a line separator, as an fcmp completer and GAS's use
as an operator.
In the end it's not *that* important of a test -- it's just something I
noticed 10 years ago :-)
jeff