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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2007-01-30 14:44:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2007-01-30 14:44:36 +0000 |
| commit | bf083c64df944d5de2c01b0bb0ab821801b7b3f9 (patch) | |
| tree | b708c773e7bc06bf7b473d762956ba86ae7a4d20 /gas/doc | |
| parent | ef7723ebe72dd86e57d4c54d5eadc12d0f13e5b2 (diff) | |
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* as.c (main): Mark symbols created via the --defsym command line
option as volatile so that they can be overridden later on by a
.set directive. This maintains compatibility with the behaviour
of earlier versions of the assembler.
* doc/as.texinfo (--defsym): Document that the defined symbol's
value can be overridden via a .set directive.
Diffstat (limited to 'gas/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/doc/as.texinfo | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo index be21112..fed4213 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo +++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo @@ -501,7 +501,9 @@ other assemblers. @item --defsym @var{sym}=@var{value} Define the symbol @var{sym} to be @var{value} before assembling the input file. @var{value} must be an integer constant. As in C, a leading @samp{0x} -indicates a hexadecimal value, and a leading @samp{0} indicates an octal value. +indicates a hexadecimal value, and a leading @samp{0} indicates an octal +value. The value of the symbol can be overridden inside a source file via the +use of a @code{.set} pseudo-op. @item -f ``fast''---skip whitespace and comment preprocessing (assume source is |