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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/36] m68k: fix macro syntax to make current binutils happy
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 22:59:18 +0100
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Hi,

On Thursday 22 December 2005 05:49, Al Viro wrote:

> recent as(1) doesn't think that . terminates a macro name, so
> getuser.l is _not_ treated as invoking getuser with .l as the
> first argument.

Could you please hold back with the binutils changes? Eventually this should 
rather be fixed in gas or they have to properly document the expected 
behaviour, so it doesn't break the next time they change it.

bye, Roman