From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Martynas Kunigelis <martynas@nm3.ktu.lt>
Cc: Alan Modra <alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au>, gcc2@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com, gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: ASM_COMMENT_START and gas divide operator 
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 09:37:00 -0000
Message-id: <6525.895163640@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <355A9E38.8C82D78B@nm3.ktu.lt>
X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00183.html

  In message < 355A9E38.8C82D78B@nm3.ktu.lt >you write:
  > I would suggest hacking gas to treat '/' as the comment _only_ when it
  > is the first character in the line. This does not break gcc/egcs and
  > does not interfere with the division operator or the opcode prefix
  > separator syntax.
Actually I would recommend against that -- I've had the pleasure of
writing a gas port (HPPA) where certain characters had different
meanings depending on their exact placement in a line.  To this day
it still doesn't work 100% correctly -- the grammar is inherently
ambigious.  In my case the character is a '!', and is used in
comparison operations, as a gas built-in operator *and* as a line
continuation character.

jeff