2012-11-09 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gas / doc / c-v850.texi

diff --git a/gas/doc/c-v850.texi b/gas/doc/c-v850.texi
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--- a/gas/doc/c-v850.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/c-v850.texi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@c Copyright 1997, 2002, 2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright 1997, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c This is part of the GAS manual.
 @c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
 
@@ -88,8 +88,27 @@ of code which are either a long function call or a long branch.  The
 assembler will then flag these sections of code and the linker will
 attempt to relax them.
 
-@end table
+@cindex @code{-mgcc-abi} command line option, V850
+@item -mgcc-abi
+Marks the generated objecy file as supporting the old GCC ABI.
+
+@cindex @code{-mrh850-abi} command line option, V850
+@item -mrh850-abi
+Marks the generated objecy file as supporting the RH850 ABI.  This is
+the default.
+
+@cindex @code{-m8byte-align} command line option, V850
+@item -m8byte-align
+Marks the generated objecy file as supporting a maximum 64-bits of
+alignment for variables defined in the source code.
 
+@cindex @code{-m4byte-align} command line option, V850
+@item -m4byte-align
+Marks the generated objecy file as supporting a maximum 32-bits of
+alignment for variables defined in the source code.  This is the
+default.
+
+@end table
 
 @node V850 Syntax
 @section Syntax
@@ -103,7 +122,21 @@ attempt to relax them.
 
 @cindex line comment character, V850
 @cindex V850 line comment character
-@samp{#} is the line comment character.
+@samp{#} is the line comment character.  If a @samp{#} appears as the
+first character of a line, the whole line is treated as a comment, but
+in this case the line can also be a logical line number directive
+(@pxref{Comments}) or a preprocessor control command
+(@pxref{Preprocessing}).
+
+Two dashes (@samp{--}) can also be used to start a line comment.
+
+@cindex line separator, V850
+@cindex statement separator, V850
+@cindex V850 line separator
+
+The @samp{;} character can be used to separate statements on the same
+line.
+
 @node V850-Regs
 @subsection Register Names