Serious error-causing change in new CPP's -traditional behavior

Dave Brolley brolley@redhat.com
Fri May 12 10:14:00 GMT 2000


Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 05:03:46PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > What I would like to have is
> >
> > #define wibble(foo) mov       r0, # foo
> > .text
> > a:
> >       wibble(4)
> >
> > and get the output
> >
> > .text
> > a:
> >         mov r0, #4
> >
> > Unfortunately we get
> >
> >       mov r0, "4"
>
> Alas, this may not have been what you intended, but it is the behavior
> mandated by the standard for that #define.  Whitespace between the
> stringize operator and its argument (macro name) is not significant.
> I don't plan to change this in assembly language mode.

This should be made to work as Richard expects for  -traditional

Dave



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