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authorRichard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>2015-07-08 20:11:03 +0100
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Clarify case requirements for gas pseudo-ops
gas/ 2015-07-08 Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@gmail.com> * doc/as.texinfo: Clarify case requirements for pseudo ops.
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+2015-07-08 Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@gmail.com>
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+ * doc/as.texinfo: Clarify case requirements for pseudo ops.
+
2015-07-08 Pitchumani Sivanupandi <pitchumani.s@atmel.com>
* config/tc-avr.c (tc_gen_reloc): Change 32 bit relocation to
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@cindex pseudo-ops, machine independent
@cindex machine independent directives
All assembler directives have names that begin with a period (@samp{.}).
-The rest of the name is letters, usually in lower case.
+The names are case insensitive for most targets, and usually written
+in lower case.
This chapter discusses directives that are available regardless of the
target machine configuration for the @sc{gnu} assembler.