Re: [Bug gas/37] New: [intel_syntax] can't reference global symbols having certain names

[Brian R. Gaeke]

I tried the Microsoft assembler I have here at home, apparently of
2000 vintage, and it definitely rejects 'byte' as a symbol.  Bummer!
(VC++ wants void byte() to be the symbol '_byte', not 'byte'.)

I guess you're right and the right thing to do is issue a good error
message.

And then spake Diego Novillo, as follows:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 06:18, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > 2004-03-08  Nick Clifton  <address@hidden>
> > 
> >     * config/tc-i386.c (intel_get_token): If the token also
> >           matches a defined symbol, prefer the defined symbol.
> > 
> Hmm, I can't seem to find the MASM documentation that I used to
> implement the parser.  My recollection is that reserved words could not
> be used as symbols, but it's been a while.
> 
> For the time being, I would suggest testing the input code on MS
> assembler (sorry, I don't have one).  If it compiles, then let's go with
> the patch.  If it doesn't, we could issue a more descriptive error
> message instead.