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Re: Does GASP continue existing?
- From: <tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net>
- To: "Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso" <fmmarzoa at gmx dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:04:00 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Does GASP continue existing?
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote:
> I've found a manual from GASP, (that stands for GNU/Assembler Preprocessor),
> from 1994 but I've not been able to find something newer, nor documentation
> or the GASP itself neither.
>
> I'm interested on it because it seems to be a better option than GCC
> Preprocessor to migrate an assembler module that uses another propietary
> preprocessor to GCC.
>
> TIA (and BTW excuse my english).
If I remember correctly, GASP was written by Cygnus under contract to Sega
or Hitachi. It was created to handle the Hitachi assembler pseudo-ops to
ease the transition from the Hitachi assembler to the GNU assembler.
AFAIK nobody is using it, and I'm not sure it's even supported.
Toshi