[PATCH] [mips] [IAS] Implement the .asciiz directive.

[Toma Tabacu]

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D7530#136593, @dsanders wrote:

> We'd need binutils to agree to drop support for it though. Otherwise, any patch to switch .asciiz to .asciz will find it difficult to get merged.


I don't think we *need* GAS to agree to drop support for .asciiz.

To me, this .asciiz situation feels like the VLAIS situation in Clang.
It's true that if GAS stopped supporting .asciiz, it would force everyone to switch, but I think we need to be convincing the developers to actively use and
support the IAS (and the whole Clang/LLVM toolchain), instead of convincing GAS to conform to our implementation.

In this regard, Linux is more problematic, as it seems to me like Clang/LLVM is used by a small subset of their dev community at the moment.

Also, I don't see why people would oppose switching to .asciz. GAS also supports .asciz for MIPS assembly, so there's no friction in switching.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D7530

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