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Macros and K&R

Boris Tschirschwitz boris@math.ubc.ca
Mon Dec 17 17:44:00 GMT 2001 
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:22:19 -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:48:04AM -0800, Boris Tschirschwitz wrote:
>
> > I am wondering if more macro facilities would be welcome in 'gas' or
> > if they should go into 'gasp'.
>
>
> how would this differ from C-pre-processed (.S) assembly files?

Well, here I am getting quite a bit into territory I don't know a lot
about: I am trying to warm up my programming skills and the gcc source
looked too intangible. So I checked out gas and it definitely is much
easier to get into.

I was impressed by Randall Hydes HLA and thought it would be nice to be
able to use some more powerful mocros in assembly going with gcc, too.

Now, I don't know a lot about cpp, but I guess you couldn't use it to
preprocess inline assmebly.

After all, some macro stuff did find its way into gas, and that's why I
thought it did.

Anyway,
do you have some page listing problems to be tackled by beginners?

Boris.
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