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PATCH: improve .align docs
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- To: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:06:20 +1000
- Subject: PATCH: improve .align docs
This patch clarifies the behaviour for .align on PowerPC targets (it
slightly re-words the whole sentence, too). Okay for mainline?
Cheers, Ben
2008-08-13 Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com>
* doc/as.texinfo (Align): Document the PowerPC behaviour.
Index: as.texinfo
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gas/doc/as.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.182
diff -u -p -r1.182 as.texinfo
--- as.texinfo 6 Aug 2008 15:42:15 -0000 1.182
+++ as.texinfo 13 Aug 2008 01:04:23 -0000
@@ -4022,7 +4022,7 @@ the location counter until it is a multi
is already a multiple of 8, no change is needed. For the tic54x, the
first expression is the alignment request in words.
-For other systems, including the i386 using a.out format, and the arm and
+For other systems, including ppc, i386 using a.out format, arm and
strongarm, it is the
number of low-order zero bits the location counter must have after
advancement. For example @samp{.align 3} advances the location