[LLVMdev] PIC16 question

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 13, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Sanjiv Gupta wrote:

> Chris Lattner wrote:
>> In my ongoing work on refactoring the asmprinters, I've found that   
>> PIC16 doesn't put ':' after labels in some cases.  Specifically,  
>> it  looks like basic block labels are emitted without a ':':
>>
>> 	movwf @__floatunsidf.frame. + 2
>> 	movlp .BB1_2
>> 	goto .BB1_2
>> .BB1_2                                                      ; %bb7
>> 	movlw 0
>> 	banksel @__floatunsidf.frame.
>>
>> but that functions and global variables are.  Does lack of a colon   
>> mean that the label is private to the file? Is a colon on the  
>> basic  block harmful
>
>> (IOW, can I just emit basic block labels with a colon  even though  
>> they aren't currently)?
>>
> Yes.
> A ':' does not make any difference to pic16 labels.
> They are optional.

Great, thanks Sanjiv!

-Chris