Re: OCTETS_PER_BYTE and Gas

2016-02-18 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Dan, > The assembler support structure provided by the GNU assembler has worked > quite well for this circumstance, with only a couple minor changes that > I would like to propose. Thanks for sending us this patch. I have decided to apply the changes to the alignment functions, but not

OCTETS_PER_BYTE and Gas

2016-02-05 Thread Dan
To those who maintain the GNU assembler, thank you. I am currently working on a back-end implementation of the assembler to an embedded system where OCTETS_PER_BYTE=4. From a C standpoint, you might think of it as a system where sizeof(char)==sizeof(int), and both are 32-bits. The embedded