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Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127
- To: Philip Blundell <philb at gnu dot org>, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk dot ukuu dot org dot uk>
- Subject: Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127
- From: ralf at uni-koblenz dot de
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:33:11 +0100
- Cc: root at chaos dot analogic dot com, alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk, egcs at cygnus dot com, linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu
- References: <m0zdYyv-0007UEC@the-village.bc.nu> <E0zdfnQ-0000iV-00@kings-cross.london.uk.eu.org>
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 07:19:15PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >> It is thoretically possible to convert correct code to GNU `as` junk,
> >> however, the damn thing doesn't even do MACROs so if I am going to
> >
> >Of course it doesn't do macros, this is unix.
>
> Actually it does (".macro foo"). GAS can do this on its own even without gasp.
Maybe the sentence ``It does not do macro processing, include file handling,
or anything else you may get from your C compiler's preprocessor.'' from the
gas documentation was getting misinterpreted by some people as gas no
macro processing. That was true fold pretty old gas versions.
Ralf