Re: nasm over gas?

[Yann Droneaud]

Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> 
> GAS also has macro capability. It's just "strange". However, it
> does everything MASM (/ducks/) can do. It's just strange, backwards, etc.
> It takes some getting used to.
> 
> If you decide to use gcc as a preprocessor, you can't use comments,
> NotGood(tm) because the "#" and some stuff after it gets "interpreted"
> by cpp.
> 

Yep, this is why arch/i386/boot/Makefile use -traditional flag.

In the past i rewrote all the comments with the C++ and now C99 form:
// comment
but my changes wasn't applied.

Files were hosted at http://project.meuh.eu.org/kernel/,
but they are no more on line, and i'm away from the computer where they
are backed up.

-- 
Yann Droneaud <yann.droneaud@xxxxxxx>
<ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxxx> <meuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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