Hi.  In keeping with HP tradition, gas for hppa recognizes ; as a comment 
character, not as a line separator.  ! is the line separator.

For now, I'm using the following uncommitted patch to sys/sys/cdefs_elf.h.  
It allows the MD cdefs.h to define __ASM_DELIMITER, otherwise it defaults 
to ;.  Seems like a kludge, looking for comments.  Thanks -

Matt

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Matt Fredette

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Index: sys/sys/cdefs_elf.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/sys/cdefs_elf.h,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 cdefs_elf.h
--- sys/sys/cdefs_elf.h	2002/01/27 07:19:25	1.11
+++ sys/sys/cdefs_elf.h	2002/06/10 13:44:03
@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@
 #define _C_LABEL_STRING(x)	x
 #endif
 
+#ifdef __ASM_DELIMITER
+#ifndef __STDC__
+#error "__ASM_DELIMITER needs __STDC__"
+#endif
+#else
+#define __ASM_DELIMITER " ; "
+#endif
+
 #if __STDC__
 #define	___RENAME(x)	__asm__(___STRING(_C_LABEL(x)))
 #else
@@ -59,13 +67,13 @@
 
 #ifndef __DO_NOT_DO_WEAK__
 #define	__weak_alias(alias,sym)						\
-    __asm__(".weak " _C_LABEL_STRING(#alias) " ; "			\
+    __asm__(".weak " _C_LABEL_STRING(#alias) __ASM_DELIMITER		\
 	    _C_LABEL_STRING(#alias) " = " _C_LABEL_STRING(#sym));
 #endif /* !__DO_NOT_DO_WEAK__ */
 #define	__weak_extern(sym)						\
     __asm__(".weak " _C_LABEL_STRING(#sym));
 #define	__warn_references(sym,msg)					\
-    __asm__(".section .gnu.warning." #sym " ; .ascii \"" msg "\" ; .text");
+    __asm__(".section .gnu.warning." #sym __ASM_DELIMITER ".ascii \"" msg "\"" __ASM_DELIMITER ".text");
 
 #else /* !__STDC__ */
 
@@ -94,7 +102,7 @@
 
 #if __STDC__
 #define	__SECTIONSTRING(_sec, _str)					\
-	__asm__(".section " #_sec " ; .asciz \"" _str "\" ; .text")
+	__asm__(".section " #_sec __ASM_DELIMITER ".asciz \"" _str "\"" __ASM_DELIMITER ".text")
 #else
 #define	__SECTIONSTRING(_sec, _str)					\
 	__asm__(".section _sec ; .asciz _str ; .text")
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