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

[Jan Beulich]

On 14.11.2022 17:02, Nick Clifton wrote:
>>> 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.

Okay, if you could give me a hint where undocumented stuff is to go
in as.texi, I could see about making a patch. Otherwise if you would
make one, it could still educate me in case something else needs
similar treatment going forward.

Jan