Subject: Re: Making the (asm) world safe for modern cpp
To: Valeriy E. Ushakov <email@example.com>
From: Jim Wise <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 09/18/2003 09:44:46
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 21:36:58 -0400, Jim Wise wrote:
>> > Just a comment: assemblers that use `#' as part of the syntax (not as
>> > a comment starter), e.g. SuperH, will have a problem with dropping
>> > -traditional-cpp:
>> > [example snipped]
>> Hmm. Does this not cause problems when used with inline assembly in
>> gcc? Obviously, correctly used, this won't result in a # at the
>> beginning of the line (since __asm__ takes arguments as strings, and
>> strings can't span multiple lines, even though this used to be common),
>> but don't the same sort of macro parameter errors occur?
>No, a string-literal is a preprocessing-token, so # inside a string
>literal is safe.
Ah, true. Hmm.
Which architectures use `#' in the default assembly syntax?
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