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Re: Macros and K&R
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- To: Boris Tschirschwitz <boris at math dot ubc dot ca>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 17 Dec 2001 19:51:26 +0000
- Subject: Re: Macros and K&R
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0112170341080.1624-100000@percy.math.ubc.ca>
Hi Boris,
> I am wondering if more macro facilities would be welcome in 'gas' or
> if they should go into 'gasp'.
Another point is that since there are perfectly good standalone macro
pre-processors out there (eg m4 or CPP) why bother adding features to
GAS ? It just makes your assembler sources hard to port to non-GAS
running systems.
Cheers
Nick