Acknowlegements: surely John Gilmore's one-bit fix was proverbial,

                 not apocryphal.

apoc-ry-phal \-fel\ adj
(1590)
1 often cap: of or resembling the Apocrypha
2: of doubtful authenticity: SPURIOUS
syn see FICTITIOUS

pro-ver-bi-al \pre-'ver-be^--el\ adj
(1548)
1: of, relating to, or resembling a proverb
2: that has become a proverb or byword: commonly spoken of

diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
index f265016..b9a294d 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo
+++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
@@ -6976,8 +6976,7 @@ updated the 68k machine description so that Motorola's opcodes always produced
 fixed-size instructions (e.g. @code{jsr}), while synthetic instructions
 remained shrinkable (@code{jbsr}).  John fixed many bugs, including true tested
 cross-compilation support, and one bug in relaxation that took a week and
-required the apocryphal one-bit fix.
-@c FIXME ``apocryphal'' surely wrong.  What's meant?
+required the proverbial one-bit fix.
 
 Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT syntax for the
 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k, i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix),