Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:54:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Problem with GRX-1.03m1
To: bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>> how do I make it then?  and what is a separator, anyway?i keep getting 
>> told i'm missing one...
>
>This is a problem that has come up before, and I haven't heard a good 
>explanation, and I don't know if it is Gnu-specific or djgpp-specific.  
>However, the problem is that the GRX sources contain some inline 
>assembler that contains C comments.  Everything I have read in the docs 
>tells me that should be OK, but the assembler gags on those comments.  
>Part of the problem is (as I recall) that the comments are within the 
>assembler quoted strings, so cpp quite rightly doesn't touch them.  
>However, I thought 'as' should understand them but it doesn't.
>The fix I used is to edit the sources (actually only one offending file, 
>I think???), locate the asm"..." sections, and take out the comments.  
>Then they assemble fine.

Um, Bill?  I'm fairly sure the problem you're talking about is with FSDB,
not libgrx.

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