On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > If LLVM strives to be GNU toolchain compatible, then this looks like a > > bug in their scanner as generic ELF support in GAS (gas/config/obj-elf.c) > > has this, in `obj_elf_type': > > > > if (*input_line_pointer == ',') > > ++input_line_pointer; > > > > so the comma is entirely optional. I realise this is undocumented, but > > there you go. It must have been there since forever. > > It contradicts documentation. The gas manual says: > > * Type:: `.type <INT | NAME , TYPE DESCRIPTION>' > > And the SGI assembler manual I dug up as ".type name, value". So maybe > gas is too generous here? I find it interesting that you mention SGI here as the commit which might be responsible for the current interpretation is this: Mon Sep 12 17:51:39 1994 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) * config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_type): Rewrite to accept syntax reportedly to be used on Irix 6. Given its age I doubt further information can be found, it might be just sloppy coding. > Either way, I think the patch is right and I've just applied v2. Sure, thanks! Maciej
