Re: [PATCH] Re: .macro behavior

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>]

>> >> only allows [[:alpha:]_$][[:alnum:]_$]*
>
>I think this restriction is actually good.  Calls for the least
>amount of surprises when applying the same macro to different
>GAS ports.

Not so. If, on IA-64 as an example, I want to define an
instruction-like macro, I need to have '.' as an acceptable character
for the macro name.

>> 	* gas/mmix/relax2.s: Use .altmacro and & to separate macro
>> parameter
>> 	references.
>
>Ew.  Please just get rid of the ":"s instead (my mistake, as
>it's a symbol character, not the usual label-ending thingy).

I can't: The test just fails (with an error message that says nothing
to me) if I do so.

>And a nitpick:
>
>>
/home/jbeulich/src/binutils/mainline/2005-02-01/gas/testsuite/gas/mmix/relax2.s	2003-10-18
>> 18:00:21.000000000 +0200
>> +++ 2005-02-01/gas/testsuite/gas/mmix/relax2.s	2005-02-08
>> 09:38:12.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -1,35 +1,37 @@
>>  # PUSHJ stub border-cases: two with either or both stubs
unreachable,
>>  # local symbols, ditto non-local labels, similar with three
PUSHJs.
>>
>> +.altmacro
>> +
>
>Pseudos shouldn't be first on a line. Accepting it in gas is ok,
>but we shouldn't get sloppy in the test-suite.  For consistency,
>it should also be aligned with the other pseudos in that file.
>(I guess you don't need the ".altmacro" pseudo if you just
>remove the ":"s so this is mostly for the record.)

Will do.

Thanks, Jan