as: HPPA Notes

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1 9.13.1 Notes
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1 As a back end for GNU CC 'as' has been thoroughly tested and should work
1 extremely well.  We have tested it only minimally on hand written
1 assembly code and no one has tested it much on the assembly output from
1 the HP compilers.
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1    The format of the debugging sections has changed since the original
1 'as' port (version 1.3X) was released; therefore, you must rebuild all
1 HPPA objects and libraries with the new assembler so that you can debug
1 the final executable.
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1    The HPPA 'as' port generates a small subset of the relocations
1 available in the SOM and ELF object file formats.  Additional relocation
1 support will be added as it becomes necessary.
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