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Re: [PATCH] add directive to enter/leave alternate macro mode
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 08 Jun 2004 09:50:59 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] add directive to enter/leave alternate macro mode
- References: <s0c59861.004@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:
> Hmm, I'm not sure here. doc/as.texinfo contains references to alternate
> macro mode, but only enclosed in an @ignore/@end ignore block, which I
> understand prevents this from making it into the generated doc.
> Additionally, this fragment refers a command line options -a and
> --alternate, which don't exist (or to be exact, the short option has a
> different meaning, the long one doesn't exist). So the question for me
> would be why this is hidden at present, and if it is for a reason, then
> there would be little point in documenting the directive without
> consolidating this.
Hmmm, if alternate macro mode is not documented, I guess I'm curious
as to why you want to add the pseudo-ops.
I think alternate mode used to be documented in the gasp manual, by
the way. That has been removed, but can still be found in CVS--it's
in gas/doc/gasp.texi. I wouldn't be surprised if the text you found
is from the gasp manual, since for gasp -a/--alternate was used to
select alternate mode.
Ian