Re: forwarded message from H. J. Lu

[H. J. Lu]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:31:12PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:03:52PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > Sorry, please do not install the patch.  The bug is in milli64.S.
> > > Operands, including those in directives, are supposed to be separated
> > > by commas.  No whitespace is allowed.
> > > 
> > > It seems an improvement to binutils has exposed the typo in milli64.S,
> > > although I must say the error message is misleading.
> > 
> > Rejecting innocuous whitespace hardly seems an improvement.
> 
> OK, I've changed my mind.  I did a little testing and the HP assembler
> actually allows whitespace, although the manual does not indicate that
> this is allowed.  Thus, we should do the same.
> 
> However, I'm still not sure Lu's patch is the correct approach.  I'm
> guessing but I think the problem is due to the recent #APP/#NO_APP
> change.  I suspect that we were always scrubbing whitespace before.
> The documentation states that if the first line of an input file is
> #NO_APP, white space and comments are not removed from the input
> file.  I assume then that the previous default behavior was to
> scrub whitespace when a file didn't start with #NO_APP.

Follow

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-04/msg00403.html

and all the issues it caused.


H.J.