Re: gas (was Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127)

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:41:54 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Alan Modra wrote:
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>
> 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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