[m68k] Remove SGS assembler support
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@wasabisystems.com
Mon Feb 9 04:18:00 GMT 2004
Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com> writes:
> I'd also like to remove register prefix handling (%/ and the stuff you've
> taken care of earlier). To my surprise, I've discovered that we still
> have one live target that doesn't use register prefixes: m68k-aout.
>
> I wonder which weird assembler they use: gas always used '%' afaik.
> Do you know anyone still using this target? I'm afraid we're too
> late to obsolete m68k-aout at this time :-(
gas has never required the '%' prefix for m68k targets which used the
a.out object file format, such as SunOS. I suspect that the native
SunOS assembler did not accept the '%' prefix, and that m68k-aout was
copied from that.
I think it would be safe to assume that anybody using the m68k-aout
target is using gas, and it is safe for gcc to always emit the
register prefix.
Ian
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