gas: add NEWS entry for change of comment syntax in BPF assembler

2023-11-28  Jose E. Marchesi  <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>

	* NEWS: Add entry about change of comment syntax in the BPF
	assembler.

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index c5e781d275cdb4b0279be9fcb90fedf2508a7010..3d5cfcae58ce98b4ad71cdbfe18ccdc8704370ae 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2023-11-28  Jose E. Marchesi  <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
+
+       * NEWS: Add entry about change of comment syntax in the BPF
+       assembler.
+
 2023-11-28  Jose E. Marchesi  <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
 
        * config/tc-bpf.c: Semicolon does not start a comment, but

diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
index 643f0e6700ec5d53cc3d25328377c42a0b1f9d6c..6bfab08c5b8b75714cef723825964f516875ed95 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/NEWS
+++ b/gas/NEWS
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
 * Add support for various T-Head extensions (XTheadVector, XTheadZvlsseg
   and XTheadZvamo) from version 2.3.0 of the T-Head ISA manual.
 
+* The BPF assembler now uses semi-colon (;) to separate statements, and
+  therefore they cannot longer be used to begin line comments. This matches the
+  behavior of the clang/LLVM BPF assembler.
+
 Changes in 2.41:
 
 * Add support for the KVX instruction set.