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In article <9204032125.AA28317@aeneas.MIT.EDU> Andrew_Smith.ENGINONE@engtwomac.synoptics.com (Andrew Smith) writes:

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   Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 18:26:22 GMT
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   Version:     gas-1.92.3 ftp'ed from wombat.gnu.ai.mit.edu on 27-mar-92
   Configure:  configure sun4os4 -target=a29k 
				 (this chooses native Sun a.out)

   1.    .align directive does not work as described in the manual (January
	   1992 edition).    .align 8 performs alignment to an 8 byte boundary,
	    not to a 256 (2^^8) boundary as described.
	    .align 0x8000 performs alignment to a 32k boundary
	    .align 0x10000 is a syntax error! (Any reason for this?)

As I recall, it matches the behaviour of .align from mataware's
assembler, but I could be mistaken.

   2.     Is there a way to align symbols declared by .comm and .lcomm
	   directives in the (non-existant!) .bss section?
	   Why can't the .bss be treated like any other section and support .bss
	   directives and the allocation of "variables" and labels in this space?
	   [I guess that COMMON storage is inherited from older high-level
	   languages].

It will be soon.

   3.      There is a strange feature with the subtraction of two labels
	    which are in the same section, same file:

I'll have to look into this and get back to you.

   4.      Could a newer gas support a "repetition" operator? This would be 
	    compatible with some other assemblers:
			      e.g.    wombat:     .word   [0x100]0

	   as well as the current syntax of

			      wombat:     .fill    0x100,4       ;  (for 32-bit
   .words)

I suppose it could.  What's the advantage?

   5.      Has anyone got a gas that uses BFD for output yet?

Not to my knowledge.