Changing GAS for ARM to accept semicolon as a comment character ?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Richard,

> This would silently break any file that relied on it.  In
> particular, I believe ';' is the only supported statement separator,
> so I think removing it would make #define macros in assembly files
> that need to generate more than one statement impossible.

Right - which was why I was asking - to see if there was any code that
actually used it.

> It would certainly break NetBSD's support code.

Darn - oh well.  I don't suppose NetBSD would like to switch to a 'one
instruction per line' approach for their assembler source code ?

Cheers
        Nick