backslashes in quoted symbol names

[Jan Beulich]

Nick,

On 14.09.2021 14:17, Nick Clifton wrote:
>>>> 2) {powerpc,rs6000}-ibm-aix*, 
> 
> Deliberately disabled.  See gas/config/tc-ppc.h:
> 
>    /* Strings do not use backslash escapes under COFF.  */
>    #ifdef OBJ_COFF
>    #define TC_STRING_ESCAPES 0
>    #endif
> 
> 
>> tic30-coff, 
> 
> The # character is not a comment starter for this configuration, so the assembler spits out:
> 
>    quoted-sym-names.s:17: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `#'
> 
> 
>> z80-coff 
> 
> This is due to the z80_start_line_hook() function, which does not support escaped double quotes.

Thanks much for these pointers; I hope to get back to that work in
the not too distant future.

Jan