gcc gas errors and vim

gcc gas errors and vim

[Corey Holcomb-Hockin]

When I get a error assembling with gcc vim gets pointed to a temporary 
file with a random name that doesn't exist anymore instead of the actual 
source file.  I wondered if there is a workaround or if I should give a 
bug report to gcc.

I'm using
gcc 2.95.4
gas 2.12.1
gmake 3.79.1
vim 6.1 with patches up to 183

this is some example output when I make in vim.

gcc    -c -o main.o main.S
/tmp/ccXhsmV7.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccXhsmV7.s:22: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mul'
gmake: *** [main.o] Error 1

Re: gcc gas errors and vim

[Brian Raiter]

> gcc    -c -o main.o main.S
> /tmp/ccXhsmV7.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccXhsmV7.s:22: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mul'
> gmake: *** [main.o] Error 1

gcc understands a .S file to mean that the assembly program should be
preprocessed first, so it stores the preprocessed output to a
temporary file, with a .s suffix. Run your .S file through the
preprocessor alone to check what's on line 22. (If you don't want your
assembly file preprocessed then change the suffix to .s.)

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