Re: string concatenation in gas

[Timothy Wall <twall at domesolutions dot com>]

A number of embedded assemblers support this sort of thing, but do so at less
effort since the tools are generally single-purpose and tightly integrated.  GAS,
on the other hand, does preprocessing and assembly in two distinct steps.

T.

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>    From: Geoff Berry <geoffb@bops.com>
>    Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:51:38 -0400
>
>    Is this a desirable (and implementable) feature, or was this intentionally
>    left out?  Gas is the only assembler I've ever used so I don't really have a
>    feel for what other assemblers are capable of in this regard.  I've had a
>    couple of assembly programmers ask me about this feature so I'm guessing
>    that it is somewhat important.
>
> I would not consider this feature to be worth much implementation
> effort.  I don't personally know of any assembler which implements it,
> but there are a lot of assemblers out there which I don't know about.
>
> Most people who need this sort of capability run their assembly files
> through a preprocessor first.  The C preprocessor and the m4
> preprocessor are common choices.  I don't think the C preprocessor is
> powerful enough for your example, but m4 certainly is.
>
> Ian