RFC: PR 31964: Add .base64 pseudo-op to gas

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Guys,

  Attached is a patch to add a ".base64" pseudo-op to the assembler.
  The motivation is to allow tools that create assembler source files
  (ie compilers) to embed large amounts of binary data without forcing
  them to use the .incbin directive.  This will be helpful to gcc for
  example as it needs to embed lots of LTO data in the object files
  that it is creating.

  Example of use:

	.base64 "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQK", "cGFkZGluZyBoZXJlCg==" 

  There is no limit on the line length, but all base64 encoded strings
  must appear on a single line.

  Any comments ?

Cheers
  Nick

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