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Re: string concatenation in gas
- To: geoffb at bops dot com
- Subject: Re: string concatenation in gas
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
- Date: 14 Apr 2000 14:59:37 -0700
- CC: twall at domesolutions dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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From: Geoff Berry <geoffb@bops.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:51:38 -0400
Is this a desirable (and implementable) feature, or was this intentionally
left out? Gas is the only assembler I've ever used so I don't really have a
feel for what other assemblers are capable of in this regard. I've had a
couple of assembly programmers ask me about this feature so I'm guessing
that it is somewhat important.
I would not consider this feature to be worth much implementation
effort. I don't personally know of any assembler which implements it,
but there are a lot of assemblers out there which I don't know about.
Most people who need this sort of capability run their assembly files
through a preprocessor first. The C preprocessor and the m4
preprocessor are common choices. I don't think the C preprocessor is
powerful enough for your example, but m4 certainly is.
Ian