forwarded message from H. J. Lu

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, John David Anglin wrote:
> However, I'm still not sure Lu's patch is the correct approach.  I'm
> guessing but I think the problem is due to the recent #APP/#NO_APP
> change.

Not in binutils, no.  That change was a bug-fix; things went
wrong, but not "just" white space-wise.

> I suspect that we were always scrubbing whitespace before.
> The documentation states that if the first line of an input file is
> #NO_APP, white space and comments are not removed from the input
> file.  I assume then that the previous default behavior was to
> scrub whitespace when a file didn't start with #NO_APP.

It still is.

brgds, H-P