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[binutils-gdb] Clarify case requirements for gas pseudo-ops
- From: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at sourceware dot org>
- To: bfd-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 8 Jul 2015 19:11:55 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] Clarify case requirements for gas pseudo-ops
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7e3023528162de7760a0e7e487aa81bbf44cb6a9
commit 7e3023528162de7760a0e7e487aa81bbf44cb6a9
Author: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed Jul 8 20:11:03 2015 +0100
Clarify case requirements for gas pseudo-ops
gas/
2015-07-08 Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@gmail.com>
* doc/as.texinfo: Clarify case requirements for pseudo ops.
Diff:
---
gas/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
gas/doc/as.texinfo | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 4439de5..e54d8a7 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2015-07-08 Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@gmail.com>
+
+ * doc/as.texinfo: Clarify case requirements for pseudo ops.
+
2015-07-08 Pitchumani Sivanupandi <pitchumani.s@atmel.com>
* config/tc-avr.c (tc_gen_reloc): Change 32 bit relocation to
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
index f42979a..950bf28 100644
--- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo
+++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
@@ -4205,7 +4205,8 @@ address; you can only have a defined section in one of the two arguments.
@cindex pseudo-ops, machine independent
@cindex machine independent directives
All assembler directives have names that begin with a period (@samp{.}).
-The rest of the name is letters, usually in lower case.
+The names are case insensitive for most targets, and usually written
+in lower case.
This chapter discusses directives that are available regardless of the
target machine configuration for the @sc{gnu} assembler.