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To: Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>
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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:45:26 -0600
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From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
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  In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005041123510.8334-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>yo
u write:
  > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > 
  > > '!' is the standard comment character for the PA assembly syntax.
  > 
  > sourceware.cygnus.com CVS gas/config/tc-hppa.c has
  > 
  > const char comment_chars[] = ";";
  > const char line_separator_chars[] = "!";
  > 
  > You're saying that it's a good idea to change the comment char then?
Whoops.  My bad.  "!" is the line separator, not the comment character.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm going senile.

jeff

ps.  One can certainly argue about whether or not "!" is a good line
separator since it's also used in expression parsing and as a completer
for FP comparisons.  Basically we've got an ambiguous grammar due to some
poor choices that were made long ago ;(

jeff