Denis Zaitsev <zzz@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:13:09AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Paul Koning <pkoning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > The same goes for many other assemblers. It depends on the syntax >> > rules -- some assemblers believe that a token in column 1 is a label, >> > some believe a token must be followed by colon (and often doesn't have >> > to be in column 1) to be a label. GAS appears to be one such. >> >> Unless it is used in MRI-compatibility mode. > > What does MRI stand for? *Note (as)M:: The `-M' or `--mri' option selects MRI compatibility mode. This changes the syntax and pseudo-op handling of `as' to make it compatible with the `ASM68K' or the `ASM960' (depending upon the configured target) assembler from Microtec Research. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
