[PATCH] gas: retain whitespace between strings

[Jan Beulich]

On 21.03.2022 08:16, Jan Beulich via Binutils wrote:
> On 18.03.2022 16:44, Nick Clifton wrote:
>>>>   One thing though - I think that it
>>>> would be a good idea to extend the documentation to cover this behaviour.
>>
>>> Or did you mean me to merely describe the specific behavior for .macro,
>>> leaving aside potential effects elsewhere?
>>
>> I think that this should be sufficient. :-)
> 
> Okay, I'll try to invent some wording. But before that I guess I'll
> actually need to deal a strange regression with the change in tic4x
> and tic54x - the output of the .byte directives in all/macro.s has
> extra zeros appended in the listing (didn't check yet whether that's
> also the case in the generated object files). Of the changes I have
> under test, I can only guess it's the one here, but of course I'll
> need to isolate that as the first step to figuring what's going on
> there. I'm mentioning it here merely in case it rings a bell ...

Ah, yes - I've spotted respective comments and alike for other test
cases.

Jan