problem in extended asm

[Andreas Schwab]

Denis Zaitsev <zzz@anda.ru> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:13:09AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> writes:
>> 
>> > The same goes for many other assemblers.  It depends on the syntax
>> > rules -- some assemblers believe that a token in column 1 is a label,
>> > some believe a token must be followed by colon (and often doesn't have
>> > to be in column 1) to be a label.  GAS appears to be one such.
>> 
>> Unless it is used in MRI-compatibility mode.
>
> What does MRI stand for?

*Note (as)M::

  The `-M' or `--mri' option selects MRI compatibility mode.  This changes
  the syntax and pseudo-op handling of `as' to make it compatible with the
  `ASM68K' or the `ASM960' (depending upon the configured target)
  assembler from Microtec Research.

Andreas.

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