Re: C compiler, assembler and linker

[Robert de Bath <robert$@mayday.cix.co.uk>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Manuel Novoa III wrote:

> 1) #elif support.

Okay, reasonable.

> 2) #warning support (at least for non-continued lines).

Hmm, a bit primitive, but, wth, It'll do the job.

> 3) Support asm() at file scope.  This is to allow the equivalent
>    of #asm/#endasm in macros.

Hmm, interesting, I'll have to look at this ... carefully.

> 4) Limited support for things like "#define stdio stdio".  Stock bcc
>    goes into an infinite loop when encounting this.  The implementation
>    has flaws, but it does what I needed.  You see this a lot in the
>    glibc headers we're using with uClibc (yes I'm working on a port).

I don't like the way this is done; I think it'd be better to 'smudge'
the definition of the current macro so that the search can't find the
word for recursion.

> 5) Improved condition wrapping of the floating point related code in
>    the bcc source (working towards building bcc for elks).  As I said,
>    the code generator dies... at least using elksemu.

I'd suspect the dtype or fltype variables.

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Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                       <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>