* read.c (emit_expr): Use memset to zero out memory, rather than

	going through md_number_to_chars.  This permits handling symbolic
	arguments when the size is larger than sizeof (valueT), if
	TC_CONS_FIX_NEW is prepared to handle the case (as it is on MIPS).

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 17a53f5..472a0c3 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Fri Jun  3 23:35:36 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)
+
+	* read.c (emit_expr): Use memset to zero out memory, rather than
+	going through md_number_to_chars.  This permits handling symbolic
+	arguments when the size is larger than sizeof (valueT), if
+	TC_CONS_FIX_NEW is prepared to handle the case (as it is on MIPS).
+
 Fri Jun  3 12:50:13 1994  David J. MacKenzie  (djm@rtl.cygnus.com)
 
 	* as.c (show_usage), config/tc-alpha.c (md_show_usage),
diff --git a/gas/read.c b/gas/read.c
index da2b3a6..2aaeae0 100644
--- a/gas/read.c
+++ b/gas/read.c
@@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@ emit_expr (exp, nbytes)
     }
   else
     {
-      md_number_to_chars (p, (valueT) 0, (int) nbytes);
+      memset (p, 0, nbytes);
 
       /* Now we need to generate a fixS to record the symbol value.
 	 This is easy for BFD.  For other targets it can be more