This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Preprocessing Assembly
- From: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>
- To: Bruce Adams <bruadams at tycoint dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:21:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: Preprocessing Assembly
- References: <C9150052B112D3119E9E0004ACA6E437025AFCA8@tepg1.tepg.co.uk>
Bruce Adams wrote:
> I am using gcc to cross compile for m68k. I discovered the following on
> the net.
>
> "Both .S and .s are assembler. By convention, .S is assembly source that
> needs to be preprocessed. Otherwise, gcc doesn't care."
>
> This is of course less than optimal on windows as the filesystem is not case
> sensitive.
NTFS preserves case. I think the .s / .S trick should work fine as long
as your editor and other tools don't itself muck up the filename.
- Dan
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/