GASP really obsolete?

[Frank Mehnert <fm3 at os dot inf dot tu-dresden dot de>]

Hi,

yesterday I asked about labels in GAS which should contain a variable
numeric part (subject "Variable numeric labels in assembler macros"). 
Because I still not got an answer to that question, I want to motivate
the background of my question.

I have to maintain GAS assembler files which contain a lot of GASP
macros. The original author of these files wrote some macros to make 
it easier to understand the assembler program. For instance, he was
able to write such code:

  IFNZ variable_a, $0
    call handle_case_a_not_null
  ELSE
    call handle_case_a_is_null
  ENDIF

He implemented the IFNZ, ELSE and ENDIF using GASP macros:

  icount .ASSIGNA 0
  ival   .ASSIGNA 0
  MAXIF  .REG     (90)

  .MACRO IFNZ val1, val2
    icount .ASSIGNA \&icount+1
    ival   .ASSIGNA \&ival+1
    cmpl   \val1, \val2
    jnz    I\&icount
    icount .ASSIGNA \&icount+1
  .ENDM

  .MACRO ELSE
    x1     .ASSIGNA \&ival-(\&ival/MAXIF*MAXIF)
    ival   .ASSIGNA \&ival+1
    x2     .ASSIGNA \&ival-(\&ival/MAXIF*MAXIF)
    jmp    I\&x2
    I\&x1:
  .ENDM

  .MACRO ENDIF
    x      .ASSIGNA \&ival-(\&ival/MAXIF*MAXIF)
    I\&x:
    ival   .ASSIGNA \&ival/MAXIF
  .ENDM

I have to replace that code using features of GAS because the maintainer
of binutils deceided to drop GASP -- they claim that GAS includes all 
features of GASP.

I have no idea how to translate these macros from GASP to GAS. The main
feature I miss is that I can't create labels containing variable numeric
parts.
Does anybody has an idea?

Frank
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Frank Mehnert
## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ##
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