From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Alan Modra <alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au>
Cc: gcc2@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com, gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: ASM_COMMENT_START and gas divide operator 
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 18:34:00 -0000
Message-id: <24400.894504792@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980501124359.28262A-100000@mullet.Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au>
X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00176.html

  In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980501124359.28262A-100000@mullet.Levels.UniSA.Edu.ou write:
  > There is a problem with using "/" to start comments, such as those
  > emitted by gcc's -fverbose-asm.  If gas needs to support "/" meaning
  > the start of a comment anywhere on a line, then the gas division
  > operator is killed, sometimes silently.  For instance:
  >   asm("pushl $FOO/2")
  > is treated as if the programmer wrote
  >   asm("pushl $FOO")
  > 
  > Of course, this is only a problem with hand-coded assembly, but it
  > would be nice to fix gas and gcc.  At least on linux, where the only
  > assembler used with gcc is gas, we should be able to make the
  > following change without causing too many problems.
  > 
  > 	* config/linux.h (ASM_COMMENT_START): Define as "#"
  > 	* config/linux-aout.h (ASM_COMMENT_START): Likewise
Thanks.  I've installed this into egcs.

It's possible we'll get some ASM_COMMENT_START redefinitions because
of this.  If so, we'll have to squash 'em.

jeff