h8300 assembler rejects upper-case letters after slash

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Wed Jul 16 05:43:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:53:05PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Even though the assembler is supposed to be case-insensitive as far as
> opcodes are concerned, the fact that `/' is not a character that can
> be part of a symbol gets the generic code to stop lower-casing the
> opcode at the slash.  This patch introduces machine-specific code to
> lower-case whatever opcode characters appear after a slash, as well as
> the size character after the dot.  Ok to install?

Did you consider fixing lex_type for h8300?  Of course, if `/' can't
appear in symbol names then that wouldn't be such a good idea.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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