Why doesn't this assemble for elf but does for pe?

[Stephen P. Smith]

note that common, RawHandlerTable, and numRawHandlers are all defined.
Ok I change the code to :

#NO_APP
.equ rawHandlerSize, ((common - RawHandlerTable)/numRawHandlers)
#APP

I am getting :
../../code/HAL/x86/rawhndlr.S: Assembler messages:
../../code/HAL/x86/rawhndlr.S:281: Error: missing ')'
gmake: *** [rawhndlr.o] Error 1

Nick Clifton wrote:

>Hi Stephen,
>
>  
>
>>>The answer is to disable pre-processing at the start of the file by
>>>using the #NO_APP directive, like this:
>>>
>>> #NO_APP  	.equ NumEntries, 5
>>> 	.equ numRawHandlers, NumEntries
>>> table:
>>>        nop
>>> common:
>>>	.equ size, ((common - table) / numRawHandlers)
>>>      
>>>