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Re: PR gas/5543 broke mmix: "can't equate global symbol foo with register name"

by Nick Clifton :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Guys,

 >> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, H.J. Lu wrote:
 >> This patch allows global register symbol if GLOBAL_REGISTER_SYMBOL_OK
 >> is defined.  OK to install?

 > Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> I think the convention is to call it e.g.
> TC_GLOBAL_REGISTER_SYMBOL_OK, but (without actually testing it)

Correct.  Also target macros like this should be documented in
gas/doc/internals.texi.

H.J.:  The patch is approved with these two changes.

Cheers
   Nick


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