>>> Gasp is considered 'obsolete'. The bintuils-gasp is the only >>> remnant of it, for applications that require it. >> >> Ok, I'll ask the obvoius follow-up question -- obsoleted by what? >> What do use instead if we want to code Assembler with a F/LOSS >> tool-chain? > > >If gcc supports the processor you're targetting you can get a >sense of the assembler support available to you by dummying up >some test code in C and then seeing what gcc emits when asked >to stop translation after the assembler code generation phase. > >Something like this: > > gcc -S myDummyProgram.c > >...should result in the creation of myDummyProgram.s > >You mentioned the "gnu assembler macro processor" but the only >part of the Gnu tool chain that I ever use for macro processing >is the "standard" preprocessor (whose man page says, "Modern >versions of the GNU assembler have macro facilities" BTW...) > >In olden days we used m4 for macro processing. It ain't pretty >but, depending on your purposes, it can be very effective.
Oh, and for completeness I probably (duh!) should have suggested: man as _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss