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Re: [patch] m68k: Use ASSEMBLER_DIALECT
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>
>> Even more time ago, I proposed to kill off the Motorola syntax,
>> but it turned out that OpenBSD/m68k were still using an old version
>> of as which didn't support the MIT syntax. For some reason related
>> to security, they wanted to keep using the old as along with the
>> latest versions of GCC.
>>
>> If OpenBSD finally upgraded their assembler, then we could get
>> rid of the assembly variant altogether.
>
> Are you sure?
> Allmost all os ports define MOTOROLA=1, only openbsd and the generic ports
> don't use it.
> If there is a vote I'd rather kill the MIT syntax. :)
I'd agree. IMHO the MOTOROLA syntax is easier to understand, since
that's how it is documented.
Andreas.
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