From 7e3023528162de7760a0e7e487aa81bbf44cb6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Sandiford Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:11:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify case requirements for gas pseudo-ops gas/ 2015-07-08 Ciro Santilli * doc/as.texinfo: Clarify case requirements for pseudo ops. --- gas/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ gas/doc/as.texinfo | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index 4439de5..e54d8a7 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2015-07-08 Ciro Santilli + + * doc/as.texinfo: Clarify case requirements for pseudo ops. + 2015-07-08 Pitchumani Sivanupandi * config/tc-avr.c (tc_gen_reloc): Change 32 bit relocation to diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo index f42979a..950bf28 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo +++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo @@ -4205,7 +4205,8 @@ address; you can only have a defined section in one of the two arguments. @cindex pseudo-ops, machine independent @cindex machine independent directives All assembler directives have names that begin with a period (@samp{.}). -The rest of the name is letters, usually in lower case. +The names are case insensitive for most targets, and usually written +in lower case. This chapter discusses directives that are available regardless of the target machine configuration for the @sc{gnu} assembler. -- 2.7.4