Minor PA GAS testsuite fix

law@redhat.com law@redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 19:46:00 GMT 2001


  > 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





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