From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8567 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2005 07:07:55 -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 8390 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2005 07:07:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imta03sl.mx.bigpond.com) (144.140.92.140) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Mar 2005 07:07:51 -0000 Received: from modra.org ([144.136.221.26]) by imta03sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20050301070749.FPUG13878.imta03sl.mx.bigpond.com@modra.org> for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:07:49 +0000 Received: by bubble.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3E50219F68B; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:37:49 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:07:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Hans-Peter Nilsson Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: .macro behavior Message-ID: <20050301070748.GM5299@bubble.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Hans-Peter Nilsson , binutils@sources.redhat.com References: <20050228222944.GF5299@bubble.modra.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:26:57AM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > - Why aren't assertions "turned on" by default between releases? That would be a good idea. > For the record, I don't see this as a reason to change whether > trailing ":" should be chopped of in this port (only its > implementation), but I think that's not what you meant. No, your email about mmix trailing ":" just happened to arrive when I was looking at lots of assertion failures. > > Assertion failure in read_a_source_file at /src/binutils-current/gas/read.c line 652. > > Thanks for reporting. I'll have a look this weekend if not > before. Without looking, I'd guess it's as much chance that > this is a port bug as it is the assert machinery rotting or > misplaced asserts. This one is a port bug. mmix_handle_mmixal leaves two spaces after the label and the generic parts of gas expect that whitespace is compressed to single spaces. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre