RFC: .sleb128 and bignums

[Richard Sandiford]

Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>
>> gas/read.c has two sets of functions for handling .sleb128, one for
>> O_constants and one for O_bigs.  The O_big version seems to be
>> horribly broken.  For example, a i686-linux-gnu configuration will
>> assemble:
>>
>>         .data
>>         .sleb128        0x123456789a
> ...
>
> Pretty pretty please add one or more test-cases to gas.

Well, like I said, I fully intend to once I know what the
intended behaviour is. ;)

Richard