[PATCH 3/3] ARM: early_printk: use printascii() rather than printch()

Chris Brandt Chris.Brandt at renesas.com
Thu Nov 2 09:38:11 PDT 2017


On Thursday, November 02, 2017 1, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> OK.. I wanted to get to the bottom of this. The gas documentation says:
> 
> |9.4.2.1 Instruction Set Syntax
> |..............................
> |
> |Two slightly different syntaxes are supported for ARM and THUMB
> |instructions.  The default, `divided', uses the old style where ARM and
> |THUMB instructions had their own, separate syntaxes.  The new,
> |`unified' syntax, which can be selected via the `.syntax' directive,
> |and has the following main features:
> |
> |   * Immediate operands do not require a `#' prefix.

Well there you go!

We all have "gratuitously broken binutils"

;)

Chris



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