[PATCH] new pseudo-ops .ifb/.ifnb

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> 28.04.05 16:29:37 >>>
>"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:
>
>> In preparation of adding support for macros with variable number of
>> arguments, this adds new conditional pseudo-op .ifb and .ifnb, which
>> check whether their arguments are (non-)blank / (non-)empty.
>
>I believe you can do that with .ifc and .ifnc, just by comparing to an
>empty string.

In most cases, but not in all. This is because of the special treatment of certain characters in get_mri_string (i.e. comma, semicolon) without respecting quotation, and the unability to use single quoted strings on some (most?) targets (x86 is what I'm testing with).

Jan