Re: [PATCH] Spelling fixes for 2.5.63 - won't

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Brian Gerst wrote:

> Michael Hayes wrote:
> > This fixes:
> >     wont -> won't (25 occurrences)
> > 
> > diff -ur a/arch/alpha/lib/ev6-stxcpy.S b/arch/alpha/lib/ev6-stxcpy.S
> > --- a/arch/alpha/lib/ev6-stxcpy.S	Mon Feb 24 11:05:04 2003
> > +++ b/arch/alpha/lib/ev6-stxcpy.S	Tue Feb 25 10:07:59 2003
> > @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
> >  	ldq_u	t1, 0(a1)		# L : load first src word
> >  	and	a0, 7, t0		# E : take care not to load a word ...
> >  	addq	a1, 8, a1		# E :
> > -	beq	t0, stxcpy_aligned	# U : ... if we wont need it (stall)
> > +	beq	t0, stxcpy_aligned	# U : ... if we won't need it (stall)
> >  
> >  	ldq_u	t0, 0(a0)	# L :
> >  	br	stxcpy_aligned	# L0 : Latency=3
> 
> Be careful with apostrophes in asm files.  Some assemblers will barf on 
> them when not in C style comments.
> 
> --
> 				Brian Gerst

Actually, it's gcc that doesn't like that. The assembler works fine:

Script started on Tue Feb 25 22:32:13 2003
# cat xxx.S
foo:	xorl	%eax,%eax	# Don't do this!
	ret
# gcc -c -o xxx.o xxx.S
xxx.S:4: unterminated character constant
# as -o xxx.o xxx.S
# exit
exit
Script done on Tue Feb 25 22:35:07 2003

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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