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

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Fri Apr 12 11:04:00 GMT 2002


> From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
> Date: 12 Apr 2002 11:53:56 +0100

>   GAS for the ARM currently supports ';' as a line separator character
>   and '@' as a line comment character.  Would anyone object to my
>   changing this so that ';' was also a line comment character and
>   dropping the support for multiple instructions on a single line ?
>   (Or else choosing a different character for a line separator).

Support for multiple instructions on the same line is often used from
asm() statements in gcc.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>



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