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authorPhil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>2001-01-13 22:39:55 +0000
committerPhil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>2001-01-13 22:39:55 +0000
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2001-01-13 Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
* doc/as.texinfo: Fix spelling and cross-references. * doc/c-arm.texi: Fix typos. Say that `;' is a line separator character for all systems, not just GNU/Linux. Make it explicit that `-k' doesn't affect code generation, just ELF flags.
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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ target processor.
@cindex @code{-mfpe-old} command line option, ARM
@item -mfpe-old
-Do not allow the assemble of floating point multiple instructions.
+Do not allow the assembly of floating point multiple instructions.
@cindex @code{-mno-fpu} command line option, ARM
@item -mno-fpu
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ be marked as being encoded for a little-endian processor.
@cindex @code{-k} command line option, ARM
@cindex PIC code generation for ARM
@item -k
-This option enables the generation of PIC (position independent code).
+This option specifies that the output of the assembler should be marked
+as position-independent code (PIC).
@cindex @code{-moabi} command line option, ARM
@item -moabi
@@ -140,8 +141,8 @@ the first character of a line, the whole line is treated as a comment.
@cindex line separator, ARM
@cindex statement separator, ARM
@cindex ARM line separator
-On ARM systems running the GNU/Linux operating system, @samp{;} can be
-used instead of a newline to separate statements.
+The @samp{;} character can be used instead of a newline to separate
+statements.
@cindex immediate character, ARM
@cindex ARM immediate character
@@ -289,7 +290,7 @@ will not make use of the literal pool.
@end smallexample
This instruction will load the address of @var{label} into the indicated
-register. The instruction will evaluate to one or two a PC relative ADD
+register. The instruction will evaluate to one or two PC relative ADD
or SUB instructions depending upon where the label is located. If a
second instruction is not needed a NOP instruction will be generated in
its place, so that this instruction is always 8 bytes long.