Some syntactic sugar for machine descriptions

[Michael Meissner]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:12:35PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:09:48PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > Another possibility occurred to me: teach genoutput that if the first
> > character of the output template of a define_insn is a '{' that means
> > the same thing as if it's an '*'.  But I think that might cause
> > problems with alternative assembly syntaxes.
> 
> Definitely it would.
> 
> > Maybe if the first two characters are '{' and white space... ?
> 
> Um... I'm not especially pleased about that notion...

I don't see what is so hard about an initial '*'.  If we are doing away with
the initial '*', I would prefer that the { be on column 1 of the next line.

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