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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2024-07-11 12:51:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2024-07-11 12:52:32 +0100 |
| commit | a79094915578872a0360c78a54accff994b883b1 (patch) | |
| tree | ee36ba6df15c59a4ca1f5aa2fe4fcdaac0586df7 /gas/doc/as.texi | |
| parent | 0cec3ce5705b14bfc693c54ab47b65635744b4ce (diff) | |
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base64: Add support for targets with byte size > octet size.
PR 31964
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texi b/gas/doc/as.texi index 02db6cb..6d927ea 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texi +++ b/gas/doc/as.texi @@ -4863,7 +4863,12 @@ characters. Multiple strings are allowed, but they must be separated by commas. As an example of how to create a base64 encoded string, see the -@command{base64} program (with its @option{-w0} option to disable line breaks. +@command{base64} program (with its @option{-w0} option to disable line breaks). + +Note: for targets where the size of a byte is larger than the size of an octet +the @code{.base64} directive will, if necessary, pad the end of the @emph{last} +string so that the total number of octets generated are a multiple the number +of octets in a byte. @ifset ELF @node Bss |