On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:40:45PM -0700, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > av at diotima:~$ gas --help | grep divide > --divide do not treat `/' as a comment character > > The man page for GAS does not mention this option. > > So my question is this: has Sun decided on the policy that this will > be the behavior of GAS under Solaris?
This is a decision of the GNU as maintainers, not Sun engineers. We (I) added the --divide option precisely to allow the use of / in non-comments. > If the current behavior of the Solaris GAS is to be maintained, then > the man page should be amended to indicate this behavior. I suggest bringing this up with the binutils maintainers. regards john
