Re: Macros and K&R

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>]

"Aaron J. Grier" <aaron@frye.com> writes:

> > Not too many people write a lot of straight assembler code these days,
> > so macro support in gas is not all that important.
> 
> depends on your target, I guess.  I would think with all the 8-bit ports
> showing up to binutils nowadays that having a good macro assembler would
> be important once again.
> 
> so this begs the question: if gasp is (effectively) dead, cpp isn't
> functional enough, and m4 is overblown, what does that leave for someone
> who wants a macro assembler?  maybe it's time to dust off the gasp
> sources?

Don't get me wrong; gas does support macros.  In fact, gas supports
pretty much everything which gasp supports, although the syntax is not
the same.

Ian