[Bug gas/2848] macro name syntax changed

[nickc at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com  2006-07-24 17:01 
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Subject: Re:  New: macro name syntax changed

Hi Zippel,

> Until at least 2.15 as accepted a macro like this:
> 
>         .macro  foo size,arg,arg2
>         move\size       \arg,\arg2
>         .endm
> 
>         foo.l           %d0,%d1

> Another alternative is to restore the old behaviour, which only accepts
> alphanumeric characters and '_'/'$'.

Wouldn't it be better to fix the sources that use this confusing form of 
macro invocation.  Reading this as a programmer it looks to me like you 
are trying to use an opcode called "foo.l" and not a macro called "foo" 
whose first argument is ".l".  ie wouldn't it be clearer to have:

    foo   .l, %d0, %d1

Cheers
   Nick




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