as.texi: Holy backwards compatibility
The patch removes a notice in as.texi that .abort will one day not be supported, arguing it's a widely used feature.
A patch is proposed to remove a notice in the binutils assembler documentation (as.texi) stating that the .abort directive will one day not be supported. The patch author argues that .abort has been around for over 26 years and is now a widely used feature that many tools depend on.
In Details
The binutils assembler (gas) provides the .abort directive to halt assembly immediately. Documentation for gas is in gas/doc/as.texi. This patch removes a warning that .abort may be removed in the future.
For Context
The GNU Assembler (gas) is a tool that translates assembly language into machine code. Assembly language is a low-level programming language that is specific to a particular computer architecture. The .abort directive is a command in assembly language that stops the assembly process.