On 23 Feb 2007, at 18:44, Daniele Terdina wrote:
>
> What would prevent GWASS to be augmented to 'understand' Qmac
> macros? (In
> general terms... I'm not familiar with either assembler having only
> used
> Metacomco's assembler myself).
GWASS macros, like HISOFT assemblers and others (in fact all others
that I have seen except Qmac) use \1, \2 etc to signal parameter 1,
parameter 2 etc. Qmac uses names on the first line of the macro after
the word MACRO. So
fiddle_de_dee MACRO par1,par2
would start a Qmac macro.
Later you might have inside this macro
DC.L par1
GWASS would have
fiddle_de_dee MACRO
DC.L \1
I will most certainly not myself alter GWASS to define macros in the
non standard Qmac form.
To alter GWASS would be possible, because almost anything is possible
in computing, but I do not think it worth it. After all I have
already altered ALL the macros used in SMSQE so that the altered
versions can be used instead of the Qmac ones, so there almost
nothing to be gained by altering GWASS to read Qmac macros.
It would be more to the point for someone to alter Qmac so that it
could read the standardish format of GWASS macros. But that would be
(a) impossible and (b) lead to a more expensive Qmac I imagine.
These are just my opinions and anyone is free to look at the source
code of GWASS and make suggestions as to how the change might be made.
George
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