[RFC] .fill does not accept forward labels

[Andreas Krebbel]

On 10/09/2017 11:42 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, Andreas Krebbel wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/all/fill-1.s b/gas/testsuite/gas/all/fill-1.s
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..92d495a
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/all/fill-1.s
>> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
>> +	.text
>> +	.fill (2f-1f), 1, 0x90
>> +1:
>> +        nop
>> +2:
> 
>  Have you verified your new test case? -- I think not all targets have a 
> `nop' instruction mnemonic.  I reckon this is already handled in other 
> tests that need to emit a piece of code across all targets, although ISTM 
> here you could have just used a portable data directive instead, such as 
> `.word', as it doesn't really matter for the objective of this test what 
> is there between the two labels.
> 
>   Maciej
> 
Good point. I've replaced it with .word as you suggested. Thanks!

-Andreas-