SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2026
gas — Proposed
gas: Remove stray form feed character
Patch removes a stray form feed character from gas/as.c to clean up the source code.
Mahdi Hosseini Asaad submits a patch to remove a stray form feed character (\f) from the gas/as.c file. This change is purely for source code cleanup and does not affect the functionality of the GNU assembler.
In the Thread
- proposer
Submits a patch to remove a stray form feed character from gas/as.c.
“gas/as.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)”
In Details
This is a minor source code cleanup patch for the GNU assembler (gas). It removes a single form feed character (\f) that appears before the #ifdef USE_EMULATIONS block in gas/as.c. This character is likely a remnant from older formatting conventions and has no impact on the assembler's functionality.
For Context
- gas
- The GNU Assembler, responsible for converting assembly language code into machine code.
- as.c
- The main source file for the GNU Assembler.
- Form feed character
- A control character (ASCII 12,
\f) typically used to indicate a page break in printing or text formatting. In source code, it's often a formatting artifact. - USE_EMULATIONS
- A preprocessor macro in
gas/as.cthat enables support for various assembler emulation modes.