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Re: preprocessor: % as args to #defines
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Syd Polk <spolk@apple.com> writes:
> Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
>> I take the attitude that anything longer than a single instruction
>> probably ought to be in a separate file of assembly.
>
> It seems that most of Apple's customers do not agree at all; most
> major Macintosh software vendors have many many lines of inline
> assembly in their source files.
Yeah, I'm aware that mine is a minority position.
> It is one of the big preventers of GCC adoption in the Apple world.
I don't see how this follows, however. GCC does support big blocks of
inline assembly acceptably well. Is it a syntax thing?
zw