[Bug gas/32073] [2.44 Regression] gas failed to build x86-64 Linux kernel

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32073

--- Comment #11 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Jan Beulich from comment #10)
> (In reply to Michael Matz from comment #9)
> > I fear the only non-contentious answer to all such questions is: "act in the
> > same
> > way as currently" :-/  I.e. try it out and emulate the behaviour.
> 
> In which case it would also be impossible to fix anomalies there. In turn
> meaning that hardly any bug in parsing of input can actually be fixed. Not a
> good state to be in. How would you respond to a bug report in such an area
> then? "We know it's broken, but it can't be fixed"?

We should treat the longstanding usages as features.

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