Re: macro's and local variables

[Mischa Baars <mjbaars1977 at gmail dot com>]

On 10/18/2012 05:43 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 18.10.12 at 17:09, Mischa Baars <mjbaars1977@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/18/2012 12:42 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > On 18.10.12 at 10:52, Mischa Baars <mjbaars1977@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Since I would like to interface with C, you would get as demonstrated in
> > > > the attachments. I didn't know that 'shl' is accepted by the C compiler.
> > > > Seems to work for now though.
> > > Maybe you just don't reference the respective symbols from
> > > C source? But even once you do, you could
> > >
> > > #define shl <<
> > >
> > > guarded by some #if to hide it when translating .S files.
> > Sounds to me, it would be a better plan to make sure that the assembler
> > accepts it '<<' both with and without '.altmacro' :)
> How would you want to deal with <<> (i.e. a literal '<', without
> the quotes) or some such?

Well, if you ask me, 'shl' is not supposed to be built-in operator in C, 
perhaps in other languages like Pascal. Personally I would make sure 
'shl' is replaced by '<<' in the assembler, and make sure that it would 
also compile assembly code with '.altmacro' enabled.

Mischa.