Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127 | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:02:41 +0000 (GMT) |
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> It is thoretically possible to convert correct code to GNU `as` junk, > however, the damn thing doesn't even do MACROs so if I am going to
Of course it doesn't do macros, this is unix. There's a perfectly good set of preprocessors that do macros, why should gnu as be another one to have its own different magical interpreter
> want to use another tool. It also doesn't know how to write > a byte to a memory location, i.e., it doesn't know about the PTR > expression to tell it whether to write a byte, a word, or a longword > to a memory location when you do something like:
of course it does - movb, movw, movl, and furthermore because it follows a cross platform standard I can read non x86 stuff easily. It took me about 3 days to get the hang of gnu assembler while writing the original linux/smp boot code
Alan
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