Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:33:11 +0100


On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 07:19:15PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:

> >> It is thoretically possible to convert correct code to GNU `as` junk,
> >> however, the damn thing doesn't even do MACROs so if I am going to
> >
> >Of course it doesn't do macros, this is unix.
>
> Actually it does (".macro foo"). GAS can do this on its own even without gasp.

Maybe the sentence ``It does not do macro processing, include file handling,
or anything else you may get from your C compiler's preprocessor.'' from the
gas documentation was getting misinterpreted by some people as gas no
macro processing. That was true fold pretty old gas versions.

Ralf

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