Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:50:50 +0100 (BST)
From: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Comments cause GNU assembler problems
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Eric Rudd wrote:

> 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

Try:

    gcc -c test.S

> 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.

I'm not sure.  I do the above -- i.e. call the assembler through
`gcc', using a capital S extension so that it gets passed
through the C preprocessor first.

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