From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@cup.hp.com>, parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] crti.S Nested procedures error
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:45:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27524.957415526@upchuck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 04 May 2000 11:27:37 +1000. <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005041123510.8334-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-04 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2000-05-04 0:49 ` [parisc-linux] crti.S Nested procedures error Alan Modra
2000-05-04 0:54 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-05-04 1:27 ` Alan Modra
2000-05-04 4:45 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
2000-05-10 21:48 Cary Coutant
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2000-05-01 18:41 Grant Grundler
2000-05-03 14:18 ` Sam Creasey
2000-05-03 15:53 ` willy
2000-05-04 0:28 ` Alan Modra
2000-05-10 20:03 ` Paul Bame
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