From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: [PATCH] gas/doc: mention quoted symbol names
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 10:07:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <430635a6-5419-aa62-5cfd-91e5a7d141c8@suse.com> (raw)
--- a/gas/doc/as.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/as.texi
@@ -3856,7 +3856,10 @@ Symbol names begin with a letter or with
machines, you can also use @code{$} in symbol names; exceptions are
noted in @ref{Machine Dependencies}. That character may be followed by any
string of digits, letters, dollar signs (unless otherwise noted for a
-particular target machine), and underscores.
+particular target machine), and underscores. These restrictions do not
+apply when quoting symbol names by @samp{"}, which is permitted for most
+targets. Escaping characters in quoted symbol names with @samp{\} generally
+extends only to @samp{\} itself and @samp{"}, at the time of writing.
@end ifclear
@ifset SPECIAL-SYMS
@ifset H8
next reply other threads:[~2022-01-04 9:07 UTC|newest]
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2022-01-04 9:07 Jan Beulich [this message]
2022-01-11 14:25 ` Nick Clifton
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