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Re: forwarded message from H. J. Lu
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, <troup at debian dot org>, "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, <bug-binutils at gnu dot org>, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:09:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: forwarded message from H. J. Lu
On Tue, 20 May 2003, John David Anglin wrote:
> However, I'm still not sure Lu's patch is the correct approach. I'm
> guessing but I think the problem is due to the recent #APP/#NO_APP
> change.
Not in binutils, no. That change was a bug-fix; things went
wrong, but not "just" white space-wise.
> I suspect that we were always scrubbing whitespace before.
> The documentation states that if the first line of an input file is
> #NO_APP, white space and comments are not removed from the input
> file. I assume then that the previous default behavior was to
> scrub whitespace when a file didn't start with #NO_APP.
It still is.
brgds, H-P