From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gas: accept custom ".linefile <n> ."
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:16:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05230a00-0302-c763-02a2-aff573582449@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5be45fcc-5e0b-22b8-c0bc-5055b4e50060@redhat.com>
On 14.11.2022 17:02, Nick Clifton wrote:
>>> We should document this behaviour in the as.texi file then, so that it
>>> is "official"...
>>
>> Do you really think we should? .linefile as a whole is undocumented. If
>> people use it, then at their own risk (if we made things "official",
>> later we couldn't later behavior anymore).
>
> Alright - in which case we should document it as being unsupported/not
> for use.
>
> I am just trying to avoid the situation where a future binutils user
> discovers the directive, tries it out and then complains about it not
> working as expected/documented/whatever.
Okay, if you could give me a hint where undocumented stuff is to go
in as.texi, I could see about making a patch. Otherwise if you would
make one, it could still educate me in case something else needs
similar treatment going forward.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-14 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-11 7:32 Jan Beulich
2022-11-14 13:43 ` Nick Clifton
2022-11-14 15:53 ` Jan Beulich
2022-11-14 16:02 ` Nick Clifton
2022-11-14 16:16 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2022-11-15 11:16 ` Nick Clifton
2022-11-15 7:59 ` Jan Beulich
2022-11-15 11:23 ` Nick Clifton
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