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Re: Macros and K&R
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:35:45PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> The C preprocessor is not terribly useful for assembly language,
> except for #include. M4 works, but M4 itself is too complicated.
true. my use of cpp assembly files doesn't extend much past #include
and #define.
> Not too many people write a lot of straight assembler code these days,
> so macro support in gas is not all that important.
depends on your target, I guess. I would think with all the 8-bit ports
showing up to binutils nowadays that having a good macro assembler would
be important once again.
so this begs the question: if gasp is (effectively) dead, cpp isn't
functional enough, and m4 is overblown, what does that leave for someone
who wants a macro assembler? maybe it's time to dust off the gasp
sources?
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