thorpej@wasabisystems.com writes:

> On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 04:20  AM, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> 
> > Is this an intended change?
> >
> > The HP-UX assembler does not accept ':' after labels,
> > and it is rather boring for me to remove and add ':'s
> > on bringing assembly code to and from HP-UX. :|
> 
> Yes.  Linux uses : after labels in its HPPA assembler.

Older gas already accepted the syntax.
Rejecting non-':' syntax is not needed to support it.

-- 
ITOH Yasufumi