From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 19:11:03 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Clarify case requirements for gas pseudo-ops
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Clarify case requirements for gas pseudo-ops

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2015-07-08  Ciro Santilli  <ciro.santilli@gmail.com>

	* doc/as.texinfo: Clarify case requirements for pseudo ops.
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diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 4439de5532..e54d8a7ea0 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2015-07-08  Ciro Santilli  <ciro.santilli@gmail.com>
+
+	* doc/as.texinfo: Clarify case requirements for pseudo ops.
+
 2015-07-08  Pitchumani Sivanupandi <pitchumani.s@atmel.com>
 
 	* config/tc-avr.c (tc_gen_reloc): Change 32 bit relocation to
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
index f42979a3fc..950bf28b41 100644
--- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo
+++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
@@ -4205,7 +4205,8 @@ address; you can only have a defined section in one of the two arguments.
 @cindex pseudo-ops, machine independent
 @cindex machine independent directives
 All assembler directives have names that begin with a period (@samp{.}).
-The rest of the name is letters, usually in lower case.
+The names are case insensitive for most targets, and usually written
+in lower case.
 
 This chapter discusses directives that are available regardless of the
 target machine configuration for the @sc{gnu} assembler.