https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102485

--- Comment #3 from Segher Boessenkool <segher at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Paul Clarke from comment #2)
> GCC putting the base ".machine" directive at the beginning of the file makes
> any command-line use of "-many" (-Wa,-many) be ignored.  Is that OK? 

If people do not use -Wa,-many unnecessarily, it probably would be
good if the assembler somehow retained that option.  But I get the
impression that that option is used a lot for no good reason at all,
and that causes weird problems.

> "-many" is supposed to make those black boxes just work.  This worked before
> recent changes to binutils/GCC.  Is there any valid use of "-Wa,-many" now?

It will still work if you are "compiling" a .s or .S, no?

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