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.macro behavior
- From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- To: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:30:43 +0100
- Subject: .macro behavior
Is it intentional that .macro
- ignores the (configurable) set of symbol name characters and instead
only allows [[:alpha:]_$][[:alnum:]_$]*
- silently inserts a zero-length named macro if the name starts with
any non-token character
- silently ignores the rest of the line if a formal argument starts
with any non-token character
If not, I'd like to fix this. One major concern here is that with these
restrictions one can't build trivial things like a .bss
pseudo-directive...
Thanks, Jan