Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 16:07:12 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU
Cc: OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Embedded assembler and comments


> It would be nice if this worked, but GCC is too modular--the assembler doesn't
> even know that there _is_ such a thing as a preprocessor.  GCC has gone from
> cpp | cc1(plus) | cpp | as to cpp | cc1 | as.

gcc never runs cpp after cc1*.  The assembler itself has a built-in
comment remover that, I guess, gets disabled by some switch gcc throws
at it.

Run "gcc -v foo.c" to see all the steps and switches gcc uses.