[PATCH] add directive to enter/leave alternate macro mode

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:

> Hmm, I'm not sure here. doc/as.texinfo contains references to alternate
> macro mode, but only enclosed in an @ignore/@end ignore block, which I
> understand prevents this from making it into the generated doc.
> Additionally, this fragment refers a command line options -a and
> --alternate, which don't exist (or to be exact, the short option has a
> different meaning, the long one doesn't exist). So the question for me
> would be why this is hidden at present, and if it is for a reason, then
> there would be little point in documenting the directive without
> consolidating this.

Hmmm, if alternate macro mode is not documented, I guess I'm curious
as to why you want to add the pseudo-ops.

I think alternate mode used to be documented in the gasp manual, by
the way.  That has been removed, but can still be found in CVS--it's
in gas/doc/gasp.texi.  I wouldn't be surprised if the text you found
is from the gasp manual, since for gasp -a/--alternate was used to
select alternate mode.

Ian