deprecate GASP

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

diff --git a/gas/doc/gasp.texi b/gas/doc/gasp.texi
index 93580599f9c136eb9d9cc6d9bbafed7af4288add..76ca475ab3e38618b33c2a9b13cbc98b35a32a76 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/doc/gasp.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/gasp.texi
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @c
 @c This file documents the assembly preprocessor "GASP"
 @c
-@c Copyright 1994, 1995, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright 1994, 1995, 2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c
 @c    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 @c    under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
 @end tex
 
 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995, 2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @end titlepage
 
 @ifinfo
-Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995, 2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 @ignore
 Permission is granted to process this file through TeX and print the
@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ flexibility: you can use it with hand-coded assembly, without paying a
 penalty of added complexity in the assembler you use for compiler
 output.
 
+@emph{Note} The use of @sc{gas} has now been deprecated.  Anything
+that it could do can now be done by the macro facilities built into
+@sc{gas} itself.  At some point in the future the @{gasp} sources will
+be removed entirely from the binutils distribution.
+
 Here is a small example to give the flavor of @sc{gasp}.  This input to
 @sc{gasp}