[PATCH v2 00/65] gas: whitespace handling

[Jan Beulich]

On 28.01.2025 15:47, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> Out of interest, did you consider making the scrubber translate all horizontal white space characters into a single space character (as opposed to just collapsing multiple spaces into one)?  This would eliminate the need for each backend to handle multiple type of space character.

I guess I'm confused: How would altering scrubber behavior matter when
the scrubber is bypassed (by -f or #NO_APP)? And then: This collapsing
already is what the scrubber does (and hence why many targets were
able to get away without checking for \t, and with -f/#NO_APP known to
not be working there), aiui.

Jan