Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 16:42:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Embedded assembler and comments
To: OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>> I just switched to 1.12 and am now getting gas errors on code that
>> used to work (like Sally's FS Debugger) under 1.11.  It looks like embedded
>> comments now cause errors.  Example:
>>  
>> Now causes the following:
>>   g:/cca00071: Assembler messages:
>>   g:/cca00071:745: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `*'.
>
>  Compile to assembler and see what the compiler is putting out.

Actually, I think I saw this mentioned as a recognized bug--GCC 2.6.0 tells GAS
that its input has already been preprocessed (to save a little time), but
literal inline assembly fails to get preprocessed because it's quoted...I
suppose you could work around the bug by using the preprocessor's string
concatenation feature ("foo" /* stupid example */ "bar" is equivalent to
"foobar".)

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