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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:21:22 -0700
From: Dan Kegel <dank AT kegel DOT com>
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To: Bruce Adams <bruadams AT tycoint DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Preprocessing Assembly
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Bruce Adams wrote:
>     I am using gcc to cross compile for m68k.  I discovered the following on
> the net.
> 
> "Both .S and .s are assembler. By convention, .S is assembly source that
> needs to be preprocessed. Otherwise, gcc doesn't care."
> 
> This is of course less than optimal on windows as the filesystem is not case
> sensitive.

NTFS preserves case.  I think the .s / .S trick should work fine as long
as your editor and other tools don't itself muck up the filename.
- Dan

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