Re: Preprocessing Assembly

[Johann Oskarsson <myrkraverk@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hi,

hp a écrit:

>Johann Oskarsson am Samstag, 26. April 2003 16:16:
>  
>
>>I've been doing a little assembly on my playstation2 running linux
>>(actually writing a little tutorial as I go along) and was wandering
>>what you ppl use to preprocess the source (if you do)?  I've tried a
>>little gasp, but that's depricated.
>>    
>>
>not really. GASP enables a few features which are often required but not 
>implemented with any other part of the binutils.
>besides, the binutils' authors only _state_ that all GASP features are 
>implemented with AS, which is not true. and, there is still some development 
>on GASP going on, not documented but, a "diff" shows. and, the GASP is 
>included in the binutils sources, with AS, in the directory of which it can 
>be compiled, separately ("make gasp-new").
>
Well, I'm not using the latest binutils package, and I've had to make 
some changes to gasp in order for it to work for me.  It has a rather 
nasty feature that treats .end as eof, but .end means end-of-function 
(incidentally eof too) in mips assembly.  I've made a crude hack to fix 
this, but am thinking of a more general solution.  What I'd like to do 
is to take gasp and create a separate tool called masp.  It'll be 
platform independent and therefore not backwards compatible with gasp, 
but will of course include the same functionality.  An added bonus will 
be that it'll be officially supported :)  Now is anyone interested in 
this?  I may need a little encouragement in order to go through with this.

>> Do you generally use cpp, or is there a better tool out there?
>>    
>>
>I don't know of any such tool which wouldn't be worse - or self-made.
>
Worse than what, please be a little more specific?


Johann

P.S. I was basically thinking of changing gasp directives from 
.something to /something, any comments on that?


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