[PATCH] ARM gas: handle {...} operands in macros

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 03/06/13 16:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 03.06.13 at 17:49, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:
>> On 28/05/13 20:18, Roland McGrath wrote:
>>> Here's another case where the presumptions about whitespace stripping don't
>>> mesh with macros quite right.  There may be more cases affected; I didn't
>>> try to add test cases for all of them.
>>>
>>> OK for trunk and 2.23?
>>
>> This seems all wrong to me.  If you're having to pretend that all these
>> special characters are symbol characters, then something else must be
>> fundamentally wrong.  That makes this patch a crutch for something else
>> that's broken.
>>
>> I think you need to dig further into why macros aren't working properly.
>>    Is it the implementation of macros, the documentation, or your
>> expectations that are wrong?
>
> Others (including me) have done this before - it's an effect of
> how the scrubber works, eating whitespace that it thinks isn't
> necessary. It's been years back that I looked into that, but iirc
> in the end I was told to better leave the scrubber untouched to
> not risk breakage elsewhere. So one or the other workaround
> needs to be found anyway...
>
> Jan
>
>
This is more than just the white-space scrubbing.  It's changing the 
definition of what characters are legal in symbols.  I'm concerned that 
that may have other potential implications for parsing as well.

R.