From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:35:32 +0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix 2.6 kernel ia64 directives Message-Id: <16906.26116.669276.453874@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <20050202221918.GA7973@lucon.org> In-Reply-To: <20050202221918.GA7973@lucon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:11:48 -0800, James E Wilson said: >> "The assembler ignores the name operands of the >> directive." Jim> I'd call this is a bug in the manual. Perhaps. Jim> Also, I'm told that current IAS gives an error in this case, which is Jim> why gas was modified to do likewise. Unfortunately, I don't have access Jim> to IAS, or to the HP assembler, so I can not check that. If this is Jim> wrong, then changing it to a warning certainly makes sense. Why should it depend on IAS as to whether GAS does or does not produce an error? The fact is that GAS has _not_ in the past issued an error and it's not acceptable to break existing code for no good reason. Making it a warning is fine, of course. That will alert people to the fact that they may have an unintentional inconsistency in their code and will let them fix the error at their convenience. After enough time has elapsed (at least a year), the severity could (and probably should) be raised to an error. Thanks, --david