Re: nasm over gas?

[George Anzinger]

Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
>
> > GAS also has macro capability. It's just "strange". However, it
> > does everything MASM (/ducks/) can do. It's just strange, backwards, etc.
> > It takes some getting used to.
> >
> > If you decide to use gcc as a preprocessor, you can't use comments,
> > NotGood(tm) because the "#" and some stuff after it gets "interpreted"
> > by cpp.
>
>
> Yep, this is why arch/i386/boot/Makefile use -traditional flag.

Isn't this throwing out the baby with the bath?  It makes writting a 
header that is use in both C and ASM all that much harder.

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