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[PATCH] Re: .macro behavior

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Mon Feb 28 23:47:00 GMT 2005 
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >No, thanks, I don't like MMIX being accused of being
> >"inconsistent" like that.  It *is* consistent - all trailing
> >":"s are chopped off.  I think I now remember why; it's not
> >really related to ":" as separating namespaces, but the main
> >reason is so I could run the binutils test-suite!  Most tests
> >"unportably"  assumes that ":" is a label delimiter and not part
> >of the label.  Maybe I should insiste that tests be rewritten
> >and labels there be defined as "label .set ." :-)
>
> I didn't mean to offend you.

None taken!

> Do you have an alternative suggestion for
> the wording then?

Just leaving it the MMIX part would obviously do fine
(except of course that I still dislike the functional change as
a whole. ;-)

brgds, H-P
PS.  I still see two replies with separate message-id:s from
you; your mailer is still misbehaving.  I suggest just replying
to binutils@sources.redhat.com until it's fixed.
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