From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10162 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2005 00:21:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9917 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2005 00:21:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bluesmobile.specifixinc.com) (64.220.152.98) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Feb 2005 00:21:43 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bluesmobile.corp.specifixinc.com [192.168.1.2]) by bluesmobile.specifixinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF4016A47; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:21:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: open ia64 issues From: James E Wilson To: Jan Beulich Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1108599702.27293.101.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:03:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-02/txt/msg00384.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 00:51, Jan Beulich wrote: > OK, then I'll put this on my mid-term todo list. You could always document bugs by filing them into bugzilla. Though realistically, if you aren't fixing these problems yourself, you will have a long wait before anyone else does. > It could reject reserved symbols, but as I said above that's not how ias appears to behave; So that's another case where IAS doesn't follow its own documentation, sigh. > What I'd like to see is that the (qp) applies to all instructions generated by the macro That sounds like an odd definition to me. I'd expect macros to just be a text to text translation, not something that has special side effects such as treating the (qp) differently than normal. I can see how this would be useful, but I can also see how this might confuse end users. This would have to be well documented as an exception to normal macro processing. Another matter to consider here is the -am option, which includes macro expansions in the listing file. If we are treating (qp) specially with macros, then we will also have to update this code, otherwise the listing files will be wrong with -am. This may require some hackery in the macro processing code, which is probably not desirable. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com