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SubjectRe: nasm over gas?
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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