From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: dvalin@internode.on.net
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gas: sanitize FB- and dollar-label uses
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:55:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c46b1e05-c6ff-4fa0-a257-95ff859d4227@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93b9be78-3689-4d4f-b7dc-f8f9ba389ccd@localhost>
On 23.03.2024 06:11, dvalin@internode.on.net wrote:
> On 22.03.24 10:40, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> I don't view it as sensible to be more lax when it comes to references
>
>> to (uses of) such labels compared to their definition: The latter has
>
>> been limited to decimal numerics, while the former permitted any radix.
>
>> Beyond that leading zeroes on such labels aren't helpful either. Imo
>
>> labels and their use sites would better match literally, to avoid
>
>> confusion.
>
> For the last several decades, my code has used only decimal labels, but
>
> it does use zero as the full label. So it would be handy if leading zero suppression did not clobber the case of:
>
> 0:
And of course it doesn't. 0: is used all over the place. Including (in its
$-label counterpart) in the one testcase I ended up in need of modifying.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-25 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-23 5:11 dvalin
2024-03-25 6:55 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
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2024-03-22 9:37 [PATCH 0/3] gas: FB and dollar labels Jan Beulich
2024-03-22 9:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] gas: sanitize FB- and dollar-label uses Jan Beulich
2024-03-26 9:58 ` Nick Clifton
2024-03-26 10:08 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-26 11:15 ` Nick Clifton
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