Subject: Re: Problem with GRX-1.03m1
To: sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT NeoSoft DOT com (Charles Sandmann)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 12:21:57 -0600 (CST)
Cc: bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com, dsinghal AT goober DOT mbhs DOT edu,
        djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: mcastle AT umr DOT edu (Mike Castle)

Amazingly enough Charles Sandmann said:
> GRX worked fine when it was released - Blame the GNU folk!  Comments in
> assembler used to work fine without a preprocessor.  Then some brilliant
> person decided to de-commit this feature, who needs backward compatibility
> anyway?


I think the reason for the change in default behavior was speed.
Apparently it goes much faster because extra parsing isn't
necessary.

I *believe* this is configurable with a change to the specs file,
but I can't seem to remember what it is.  If someone checks up on
it, mebbe DJ could put that in the FAQ, or mebbe change the specs
files supplied with the next release to be backwards compat.

mrc
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