Remove text documenting the purging of: .stab, ":" operator.

Remove text documenting the addition of the .global operator.
Document that the .stab and ":" operator may disappear in the near future

SCCS-vsn: old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs2.me 1.3
SCCS-vsn: old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs3.me 1.3
SCCS-vsn: old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me 1.4

diff --git a/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs2.me b/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs2.me
index f614d1b..9000732 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs2.me
+++ b/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs2.me
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\"
 .\"    Copyright (c) 1982 Regents of the University of California
 .\"
 .\"    Copyright (c) 1982 Regents of the University of California

-.\"    @(#)asdocs2.me 1.2 %G%
+.\"    @(#)asdocs2.me 1.3 %G%

 .\"
 .EQ
 delim $$
 .\"
 .EQ
 delim $$


@@ -172,9 +172,6 @@ certain keywords require operands which are not undefined).
 .ip "undefined\ external" 
 A symbol which is declared
 .b .globl
 .ip "undefined\ external" 
 A symbol which is declared
 .b .globl

-(or
-.b .global ,
-which is an equivalent definition)

 but not defined
 in the current assembly is an undefined external.
 If such a symbol is declared,
 but not defined
 in the current assembly is an undefined external.
 If such a symbol is declared,

diff --git a/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs3.me b/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs3.me
index e16b77b..ffd67ed 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs3.me
+++ b/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs3.me
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\"
 .\"    Copyright (c) 1982 Regents of the University of California
 .\"
 .\"    Copyright (c) 1982 Regents of the University of California

-.\"    @(#)asdocs3.me 1.2 %G%
+.\"    @(#)asdocs3.me 1.3 %G%

 .\"
 .EQ
 delim $$
 .\"
 .EQ
 delim $$


@@ -254,8 +254,6 @@ _
 .)b
 and assembled in successive locations.
 The expressions must be absolute.
 .)b
 and assembled in successive locations.
 The expressions must be absolute.

-.pp
-The assembler no longer supports the colon field initialization operator.

 .in -2n
 .TS
 lb l.
 .in -2n
 .TS
 lb l.


@@ -381,7 +379,6 @@ as global and hence will be unknown to the link editor.
 .TS
 lb l.
 \&.globl       $name$
 .TS
 lb l.
 \&.globl       $name$

-\&.global      $name$

 .TE
 .in +2n
 .pp
 .TE
 .in +2n
 .pp


@@ -475,13 +472,6 @@ is a
 stab that implicitly references
 .q dot ,
 the current location counter.
 stab that implicitly references
 .q dot ,
 the current location counter.

-Note:
-The old
-.b .stab
-directive is no longer supported because it assumes a
-fixed length for the string in a
-.b .stabs
-directive.

 .pp
 The
 .i string
 .pp
 The
 .i string

diff --git a/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me b/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me
index 18b6d8a..fa255b0 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me
+++ b/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\"
 .\"    Copyright (c) 1982 Regents of the University of California
 .\"
 .\"    Copyright (c) 1982 Regents of the University of California

-.\"    @(#)asdocs4.me 1.3 %G%
+.\"    @(#)asdocs4.me 1.4 %G%

 .\"
 .EQ
 delim $$
 .\"
 .EQ
 delim $$


@@ -317,6 +317,3 @@ will allow the peephole optmizer to produce much better
 loop optimizations,
 since it currently assumes the worst
 case about the size of the loop body.
 loop optimizations,
 since it currently assumes the worst
 case about the size of the loop body.

-.pp
-There has been no experience with foreign programs using
-the binary symbolic intermediate form.