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| -rw-r--r-- | gas/ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/doc/as.texinfo | 30 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index e80a36d..a7ceb30 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2015-12-21 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + PR gas/19386 + * doc/as.texinfo (Strings): Prepend a space to index entries that + start with a backslash. This works around a problem in the pdf + generator. + 2015-12-18 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> * config/tc-i386.c (optimize_imm): Store 32-bit immediate in diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo index 41efee9..834e161 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo +++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo @@ -2870,11 +2870,19 @@ escape character). The complete list of escapes follows. @cindex escape codes, character @cindex character escape codes +@c NOTE: Cindex entries must not start with a backlash character. +@c NOTE: This confuses the pdf2texi script when it is creating the +@c NOTE: index based upon the first character and so it generates: +@c NOTE: \initial {\\} +@c NOTE: which then results in the error message: +@c NOTE: Argument of \\ has an extra }. +@c NOTE: So in the index entries below a space character has been +@c NOTE: prepended to avoid this problem. @table @kbd @c @item \a @c Mnemonic for ACKnowledge; for ASCII this is octal code 007. @c -@cindex @code{\b} (backspace character) +@cindex @code{ \b} (backspace character) @cindex backspace (@code{\b}) @item \b Mnemonic for backspace; for ASCII this is octal code 010. @@ -2882,12 +2890,12 @@ Mnemonic for backspace; for ASCII this is octal code 010. @c @item \e @c Mnemonic for EOText; for ASCII this is octal code 004. @c -@cindex @code{\f} (formfeed character) +@cindex @code{ \f} (formfeed character) @cindex formfeed (@code{\f}) -@item \f +@item backslash-f Mnemonic for FormFeed; for ASCII this is octal code 014. -@cindex @code{\n} (newline character) +@cindex @code{ \n} (newline character) @cindex newline (@code{\n}) @item \n Mnemonic for newline; for ASCII this is octal code 012. @@ -2895,8 +2903,8 @@ Mnemonic for newline; for ASCII this is octal code 012. @c @item \p @c Mnemonic for prefix; for ASCII this is octal code 033, usually known as @code{escape}. @c -@cindex @code{\r} (carriage return character) -@cindex carriage return (@code{\r}) +@cindex @code{ \r} (carriage return character) +@cindex carriage return (@code{backslash-r}) @item \r Mnemonic for carriage-Return; for ASCII this is octal code 015. @@ -2904,7 +2912,7 @@ Mnemonic for carriage-Return; for ASCII this is octal code 015. @c Mnemonic for space; for ASCII this is octal code 040. Included for compliance with @c other assemblers. @c -@cindex @code{\t} (tab) +@cindex @code{ \t} (tab) @cindex tab (@code{\t}) @item \t Mnemonic for horizontal Tab; for ASCII this is octal code 011. @@ -2914,20 +2922,20 @@ Mnemonic for horizontal Tab; for ASCII this is octal code 011. @c @item \x @var{digit} @var{digit} @var{digit} @c A hexadecimal character code. The numeric code is 3 hexadecimal digits. @c -@cindex @code{\@var{ddd}} (octal character code) +@cindex @code{ \@var{ddd}} (octal character code) @cindex octal character code (@code{\@var{ddd}}) @item \ @var{digit} @var{digit} @var{digit} An octal character code. The numeric code is 3 octal digits. For compatibility with other Unix systems, 8 and 9 are accepted as digits: for example, @code{\008} has the value 010, and @code{\009} the value 011. -@cindex @code{\@var{xd...}} (hex character code) +@cindex @code{ \@var{xd...}} (hex character code) @cindex hex character code (@code{\@var{xd...}}) @item \@code{x} @var{hex-digits...} A hex character code. All trailing hex digits are combined. Either upper or lower case @code{x} works. -@cindex @code{\\} (@samp{\} character) +@cindex @code{ \\} (@samp{\} character) @cindex backslash (@code{\\}) @item \\ Represents one @samp{\} character. @@ -2938,7 +2946,7 @@ Represents one @samp{\} character. @c (@xref{Characters,,Character Constants}.) to represent @c a @samp{'}. @c -@cindex @code{\"} (doublequote character) +@cindex @code{ \"} (doublequote character) @cindex doublequote (@code{\"}) @item \" Represents one @samp{"} character. Needed in strings to represent |