[PATCH] Re: .macro behavior

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Tue Mar 1 07:07:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:26:57AM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> - Why aren't assertions "turned on" by default between releases?

That would be a good idea.

> For the record, I don't see this as a reason to change whether
> trailing ":" should be chopped of in this port (only its
> implementation), but I think that's not what you meant.

No, your email about mmix trailing ":" just happened to arrive when I
was looking at lots of assertion failures.

> > Assertion failure in read_a_source_file at /src/binutils-current/gas/read.c line 652.
> 
> Thanks for reporting.  I'll have a look this weekend if not
> before.  Without looking, I'd guess it's as much chance that
> this is a port bug as it is the assert machinery rotting or
> misplaced asserts.

This one is a port bug.  mmix_handle_mmixal leaves two spaces after the
label and the generic parts of gas expect that whitespace is compressed
to single spaces.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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