Re: [PATCH] x86: allow equates to registers

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Jan,

> This patch allows, on x86/x86-64, registers to be on the right side of
> .equ and similar operations, and (obviously) also allows the resulting
> symbols to be used.

I have not seen any adverse comments to this patch, so:

> gas/
> 2005-10-21  Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@novell.com>
>
> 	* config/tc-i386.c (i386_operand): Don't check register prefix
> here.
> 	(parse_real_register): Rename from parse_register.
> 	(parse_register): New.
> 	(i386_parse_name): New.
> 	(md_operand): New.
> 	(intel_e11): Don't tolerate registers in offset expressions
> anymore.
> 	(intel_get_token): Don't check register prefix here. Copy the
> actual
> 	register token, not the canonical register name.
> 	* config/tc-i386.h (md_operand): Delete.
> 	(i386_parse_name): Declare.
> 	(md_parse_name): Define.
>
> gas/testsuite/
> 2005-10-21  Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@novell.com>
>
> 	* gas/i386/intel.s: Replace register used in offset expression.
> 	* gas/i386/intel.e: Adjust.
> 	* gas/i386/intelbad.l: Adjust.
> 	* gas/i386/equ.[sed]: New.
> 	* gas/i386/i386.exp: Run new test.

Approved - please apply.

Cheers
  Nick