Re: Traditional cpp and assembler, revisited

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:33:27AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> (3) Stop using the C preprocessor for assembler sources and switch to
> some other preprocessor like m4. This is more involved since it requires
> changing assembler code that uses e.g. machine/asm.h. It can also lead
> to some duplication between m4 macro library and C headers.

Duplicating stuff in two files is really, really, really bad.
Since there is stuff that is included in both C and asm files, they need
to use the same pre-processor - or at least one that can follow the
required syntax adequately for the shared files.

        David

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