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. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
