C. Bergstr?m wrote: > Alex Viskovatoff wrote: >> I found out about this option from "gas --help": >> >> av at diotima:~$ gas --help | grep divide >> --divide do not treat `/' as a comment character >> >> > Are you using the same version between linux and opensolaris?
Yes. GNU Binutils 2.19 under osol snv_118 X86 and under openSUSE 11.1. (Binutils 2.18 under Fedora 10 yields the same behavior as the latter.) The reason I'm asking this is that when this has come up before in the forums, people have suggested that this difference in behavior is going to go away with some future release of Binutils. But no matter which new release of Binutils we get into, the difference always remains. So it looks like the difference is here to stay, and that it has persisted long enough for the undocumented difference to be turned into a documented one. (Of course, we should be grateful to a thoughtful Sun developer for introducing the "--divide" option into GAS: the equivalent does not exist in the Solaris assembler.) > Feel free to start a wiki page or blog on it... Given the existence of Google, a thread like this can serve as an equivalent to a Wiki page... Alex
