From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265234AbTIDPAr (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:00:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265239AbTIDPAr (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:00:47 -0400 Received: from gharelay-av-smtp2.gmessaging.net ([194.51.201.3]:53213 "EHLO eads-av-smtp2.gmessaging.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265234AbTIDPAh (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:00:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:55:55 +0200 From: Yann Droneaud Subject: Re: nasm over gas? In-reply-to: To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: fruhwirth clemens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3F57527B.7050204@mbda.fr> Organization: MBDA MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr-fr, fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 References: <20030904104245.GA1823@leto2.endorphin.org> <3F5741BD.5000401@mbda.fr> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Sep 2003 14:53:56.0829 (UTC) FILETIME=[5DD458D0:01C372F4] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > GAS also has macro capability. It's just "strange". However, it > does everything MASM (/ducks/) can do. It's just strange, backwards, etc. > It takes some getting used to. > > If you decide to use gcc as a preprocessor, you can't use comments, > NotGood(tm) because the "#" and some stuff after it gets "interpreted" > by cpp. > Yep, this is why arch/i386/boot/Makefile use -traditional flag. In the past i rewrote all the comments with the C++ and now C99 form: // comment but my changes wasn't applied. Files were hosted at http://project.meuh.eu.org/kernel/, but they are no more on line, and i'm away from the computer where they are backed up. -- Yann Droneaud