Update descriptions of the .2byte, .4byte and .8byte directives.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gas / doc / c-mmix.texi

diff --git a/gas/doc/c-mmix.texi b/gas/doc/c-mmix.texi
index 6adeaf9311460d5892a477c6df66de4a59b4b6b8..6a085d83c9ca5f5f79477439a49d8318393e7371 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/doc/c-mmix.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/c-mmix.texi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@c Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c This is part of the GAS manual.
 @c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
 @c MMIX description by Hans-Peter Nilsson, hp@bitrange.com
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ is specified, and assembly fails otherwise, when an instruction needs to
 be expanded.  It needs to be kept in mind that @code{mmixal} is both an
 assembler and linker, while @code{@value{AS}} will expand instructions
 that at link stage can be contracted.  (Though linker relaxation isn't yet
-implemented in @code{@value{LD}}.)  The option @samp{-x} also imples
+implemented in @code{@value{LD}}.)  The option @samp{-x} also implies
 @samp{--linker-allocated-gregs}.
 
 @cindex @samp{--no-pushj-stubs} command line option, MMIX
@@ -172,7 +172,10 @@ specified, the rest of the line is ignored, treated as a comment.
 The characters @samp{*} and @samp{#} are line comment characters; each
 start a comment at the beginning of a line, but only at the beginning of a
 line.  A @samp{#} prefixes a hexadecimal number if found elsewhere on a
-line.
+line.  If a @samp{#} appears at the start of a line the whole line is
+treated as a comment, but the line can also act as a logical line
+number directive (@pxref{Comments}) or a preprocessor control command
+(@pxref{Preprocessing}).
 
 Two other characters, @samp{%} and @samp{!}, each start a comment anywhere
 on the line.  Thus you can't use the @samp{modulus} and @samp{not}