On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:11 pm, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>         .section .ident ; .asciz "$NetBSD: nfs_boot.c,v 1.59 2003/06/29
> 22:32:14 fvdl Exp $" ; .previous
...
> With a quick glance into the gas manual, yes, this is a gas bug.
> ".previous" does not work correct. The effect on find_port from
> sys/netinet/ip_h323_pxy.c is the same.

Well, the actual problem was the ";" separator.  That's the comment character 
on HPPA.  I modified cdefs_elf.h to use a newline instead, and it works as 
expected.