On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:53:56AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:

 >   GAS for the ARM currently supports ';' as a line separator character
 >   and '@' as a line comment character.  Would anyone object to my
 >   changing this so that ';' was also a line comment character and
 >   dropping the support for multiple instructions on a single line ?
 >   (Or else choosing a different character for a line separator).

It is quite common to have pre-processed assembly code which has multi-line
macros with semi-colons in it, e.g.:

#define DO_SOMETHING \
        insn1 ; \
        insn2 ; \
        insn3 ; \
        insn4

-- 
        -- Jason R. Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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