A PREFIX_SEPARATOR bug in binutils 2.9

[Ian Lance Taylor]

   From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
   Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:41:32 -0700 (PDT)

   In binutils, PREFIX_SEPARATOR is defined as '/' for x86. But there
   is

   #if defined (TE_I386AIX) || defined (OBJ_ELF) || defined (OBJ_MAYBE_ELF)
   const char comment_chars[] = "#/";
   #else
   const char comment_chars[] = "#";
   #endif

   in config/tc-i386.c. It makes '/' to start a comment. It won't work.

Why do you say ``it won't work?''  What do you mean?  That code has
been there since May 1993, so clearly it can work.

   We can define PREFIX_SEPARATOR as

   #if defined (TE_I386AIX) || defined (OBJ_ELF) || defined (OBJ_MAYBE_ELF)
   #define PREFIX_SEPARATOR '\\'
   #else
   #define PREFIX_SEPARATOR '/'
   #endif

   But I don't like it. Any suggestion how to fix it?

What is the actual problem you are trying to solve?

Ian