At 11:30 PM 6/29/2002, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
>the new required syntax is still accepted by older versions of gcc.
>(I just went through this with a project at work...)  I do not know the
>reason for the change.

Since ELF does not prefix all symbols with _, you can't tell
if d0 is a register or a variable.  So register were moved to
their own namespace by prefixing them with %.  [I had to make
a similar changes to the VAX assembler when I added ELF support
for VAX.]


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