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Re: gas (was Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127)
- To: Alan Modra <alan at spri dot levels dot unisa dot edu dot au>
- Subject: Re: gas (was Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127)
- From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root at chaos dot analogic dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:41:54 -0500 (EST)
- cc: Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>, Linux-Egcs <egcs at cygnus dot com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu>
- Reply-To: root at chaos dot analogic dot com
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Alan Modra wrote:
[SNIPPED]
>
> gasp. No, that's not an exclamation. Use the gnu assembler preprocessor
> called gasp to do your macros.
>
I will check this stuff out. Thanks!
> gas has movb, movw, movl to accomplish the same thing, but admittedly you
> can't give the type when defining the variable and have gas automatically
> size the instruction. I suppose this could be added to gas without too
> much trouble.
>
Thanks.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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