On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:30:55PM -0500, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Could someone please comment on the following difference, which still > persists: > > #v+ > $ cat > foo.s > .text > start: > push 3/2 > #v- > > Natively, i686-pc-linux-gnu: > #v+ > $ gas/as-new foo.s > $ objdump -d a.out > [...] > 00000000 <start>: > 0: ff 35 01 00 00 00 pushl 0x1 > #v- > > Targetted at i586-pc-gnu: > #v+ > $ gas/as-new foo.s > $ objdump -d a.out > [...] > 00000000 <start>: > 0: ff 35 03 00 00 00 pushl 0x3 > #v-
On i586-pc-gnu, '/' anywhere on the line starts a comment. This is because the original x86 sysv assembler used '/' to start comments. In mid 1998, I changed this for the linux version of x86 gas, so that '/' could be used in expressions as a divide operator. Other flavours of x86 gas have followed suit since then. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
