From: broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
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Subject: Re: Assembly Question, sarl, sall...REPT#  ENDM??
Date: 30 Aug 1999 00:22:43 +0200
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) wrote:
> In article <199908272202 DOT SAA19843 AT delorie DOT com> you wrote:
> > In TASM you can use:

> > REPT 40     
> [...]
> > ENDM

> That's an assembler macro. And no, gas itself doesn't support
> macros. For that, you'ld need 'gasp', the GNU ASsembler
> Preprocessor. For some simple cases, using assembly-via-C-Preprocessor
> (files named *.S, and gcc compiles them) can work.

Ooops, I have to correct myself, here. It's true that gas doesn't
support macro assembly in the usual sense, but 'rept' is an exception.
This one *is* supported by gas itself, already:

	.rept 40
	<instruction>
	.endr

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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