[patch] Arm mapping symbols

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Mar 10 09:50:00 GMT 2006


Hi Paul,

>>It would be helpful if you could extend the
>>gas/testsuite/gas/arm/mapping.[sd] files to cover these extra symbols,
>>so that we can be sure that the assembler and disassembler continue to
>>support them.
>  
> Binutils does not know or need to know what they actually mean.

Well, it does need to know that they are "special" even if it does not 
have to know why they are special.

> I've added a new test (attached) to check that these symbols are recognised as 
> special symbols.

Thanks for doing this.

Cheers
   Nick



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