MFC request GAS as.1 patch to fix unbalanced brackets

David O'Brien obrien@NUXI.com
Sun May 14 13:36:00 GMT 2000


With out this change ``man as'' on 4.4BSD+ produces an error message of
"`\|' is not allowed in an escape name".  The output is also wrong, compare:
     as [-a[dhlns]=file]] [-D] [--defsym SYM=VAL] [-f]
vs.
     as [-a[dhlns][=file]] [-D] [--defsym SYM=VAL] [-f]
 
 
 
2000-04-25  David O'Brien  <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

	* doc/as.1: Fix unbalanced brackets.


Index: as.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gas/doc/as.1,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 as.1
--- as.1	1999/10/11 04:07:10	1.2
+++ as.1	2000/05/14 20:34:37
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .na
 .B as
 .RB "[\|" \-a "[\|" dhlns "\|]" \c
-\&\[\|\=\c
+\&[\|\=\c
 .I file\c
 \&\|]\|]
 .RB "[\|" \-D "\|]"


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