[PATCH] gas: accept custom ".linefile <n> ."

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Mon Nov 14 16:02:54 GMT 2022


Hi Jan,

>> We should document this behaviour in the as.texi file then, so that it
>> is "official"...
> 
> Do you really think we should? .linefile as a whole is undocumented. If
> people use it, then at their own risk (if we made things "official",
> later we couldn't later behavior anymore).

Alright - in which case we should document it as being unsupported/not
for use.

I am just trying to avoid the situation where a future binutils user
discovers the directive, tries it out and then complains about it not
working as expected/documented/whatever.

Cheers
   Nick



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