From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Bug in assembler mode Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:31:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4902F570.3050108@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224930831 22023 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2008 10:33:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rustompmody@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 25 12:34:51 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtgTn-0005Ym-GE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:34:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtgSh-0004aV-HC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtgSM-0004ZR-RI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtgSM-0004Yt-6B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49836 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtgSL-0004Yn-S1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43682) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtgSJ-0006MJ-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2008 10:33:12 -0000 Original-Received: from 88-117-40-178.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [88.117.40.178]) [88.117.40.178] by mail.gmx.net (mp035) with SMTP; 25 Oct 2008 12:33:12 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/6QPtp52T6hMjaIb76XlIn5FW0wlhkozrUZRUTFT 0LK/Mmagf7D0Ng User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) Original-References: c325b3cb-0c65-4a29-b785-4373d1e5a614@u29g2000pro.googlegroups.com X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.77 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59152 Archived-At: > I was writing code in assembly (gas under linux) > Wanted to comment out something and used comment region. > > It put semicolons. > > I dont know gas very well and I did not think about it. > > After a long time of weird behavior in which a file that was only > changed in its 'comments' was behaving different from one that was > not, I looked at the gas manual and find that semicolon is like in C > -- a statement separator. Maybe you should try `gas-mode' http://www.hczim.de/software/gas-mode.html instead of asm-mode shipped with Emacs. martin