From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Comments cause GNU assembler problems
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:43:26 -0500
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I have been having trouble with comments in GNU assembler programs.  The
following routine

   .globl   _test
_test:
   fldl  4(%esp)              /* as.exe 2.7 doesn't like this comment */

   ret

produces the message

test.s: Assembler messages:
test.s:3: Error: Ignoring junk '(%esp) ' after expression

Version 2.8.1 has no problems with this.  I tried capitalizing the
extension:

   as test.S -o test.o

but this didn't solve the problem.  Is there any way of making comments
compatible with older versions?  The docs for "as" say that the #-style
comment is deprecated, so I'm not sure I should use that, either.  I
think this is a bug in 2.7, but I'd like to find a work-around.

-Eric Rudd
rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com