At 10:58 PM 10/3/2003, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
>thorpej@wasabisystems.com writes:
>
> > On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 04:20  AM, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> >
> > > Is this an intended change?
> > >
> > > The HP-UX assembler does not accept ':' after labels,
> > > and it is rather boring for me to remove and add ':'s
> > > on bringing assembly code to and from HP-UX. :|
> >
> > Yes.  Linux uses : after labels in its HPPA assembler.
>
>Older gas already accepted the syntax.
>Rejecting non-':' syntax is not needed to support it.

binutils 2.14.90 gas doesn't support it correctly.  Rather
than fix it, I decided it was easier to just not support it.


-- 
Matt Thomas                     email: matt@3am-software.com
3am Software Foundry              www: http://3am-software.com/bio/matt/
Cupertino, CA              disclaimer: I avow all knowledge of this message.