From f56173071020d3e97c98c550ba6264122e5d861d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stepan Nemec Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:39:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos in assembler documentation. --- gas/doc/as.texi | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texi b/gas/doc/as.texi index 09b0ca5f565..c1ac22c2297 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texi +++ b/gas/doc/as.texi @@ -2885,9 +2885,9 @@ preprocessed. If the first line of an input file is @code{#NO_APP} or if you use the @samp{-f} option, whitespace and comments are not removed from the input file. Within an input file, you can ask for whitespace and comment removal in -specific portions of the by putting a line that says @code{#APP} before the +specific portions of the file by putting a line that says @code{#APP} before the text that may contain whitespace or comments, and putting a line that says -@code{#NO_APP} after this text. This feature is mainly intend to support +@code{#NO_APP} after this text. This feature is mainly intended to support @code{asm} statements in compilers whose output is otherwise free of comments and whitespace. @@ -2923,12 +2923,13 @@ This means you may not nest these comments. @cindex line comment character Anything from a @dfn{line comment} character up to the next newline is considered a comment and is ignored. The line comment character is target -specific, and some targets multiple comment characters. Some targets also have -line comment characters that only work if they are the first character on a -line. Some targets use a sequence of two characters to introduce a line -comment. Some targets can also change their line comment characters depending -upon command-line options that have been used. For more details see the -@emph{Syntax} section in the documentation for individual targets. +specific, and some targets support multiple comment characters. Some targets +also have line comment characters that only work if they are the first +character on a line. Some targets use a sequence of two characters to +introduce a line comment. Some targets can also change their line comment +characters depending upon command-line options that have been used. For more +details see the @emph{Syntax} section in the documentation for individual +targets. If the line comment character is the hash sign (@samp{#}) then it still has the special ability to enable and disable preprocessing (@pxref{Preprocessing}) and @@ -3649,7 +3650,7 @@ bug in the assembler. @cindex expr (internal section) @item expr section -The assembler stores complex expression internally as combinations of +The assembler stores complex expressions internally as combinations of symbols. When it needs to represent an expression as a symbol, it puts it in the expr section. @c FIXME item debug @@ -4356,7 +4357,7 @@ You may not subtract arguments from different sections. @dfn{Is Less Than Or Equal To} The comparison operators can be used as infix operators. A true result has a -value of -1 whereas a false result has a value of 0. Note, these operators +value of -1 whereas a false result has a value of 0. Note, these operators perform signed comparisons. @end table -- 2.30.2