On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 10:58 -0400, quoth Steven W. Orr: =>On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 09:29 -0400, quoth Bob Bell: => =>=>On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:37:40PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>=>> I found an old copy of binutils that comes with gasp. It still doesn't =>=>> answer why gasp is gone. =>=>> =>=>> As for m4, m4 could be used to write gasp but to start out with m4 would be =>=>> a huge pain just as it would be to write something in assembler if you have =>=>> a C compiler. ;-) =>=> =>=>I've been quietly reading along, but finally decided to try and found =>=>out what the "official" recommended replacement for GASP is. Thus quoth =>=>the GAS docs: =>=> =>=>"The as internal preprocessor ... does not do macro processing, include =>=>file handling, or anything else you may get from your C compiler's =>=>preprocessor. You can do include file processing with the .include =>=>directive ... You can use the gnu C compiler driver to get other .CPP. =>=>style preprocessing by giving the input file a `.S' suffix." =>=> -- http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.17/as/Preprocessing.html =>=> =>=>I would seem that the expectation when dropping GASP is that people =>=>would use CPP now. At least, that's my best attempt at interpreting the =>=>situation. => =>Yeah, I read that too. But the C preprocessor is not a replacement. From =>my pov, cpp is not even good enough for C. It only provides include, =>define, and if with no caps for looping. => =>I filed a bug against gas only for the purpose of finding someone to =>respond.
Here's the bug I filed so people can read along if they're interested. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2895 -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
