some ideas to gnu as

[Miro Kropacek]

Hi everybody,

I subscribed to this list because I want to be happy user of gnu as but 
there is a few issues which stops me to replace my current assembler 
with gnu as so I'm interested in developer's comment on this:

1. Local labels. I don't know where comes the idea of gnu as' local 
labels from but it's something totally different I'm using everyday. 
Local labels in every assembler I use for my platform (m68k) have this 
meaning:

global_label1: nop
 nop
.local_label: nop
 nop
global_label2: nop
nop
.local_label: nop
nop
:
etc. You see the idea -- I can use dotted prefix in every local label, 
it's not explicitly exported much like gnu as L-labels but I can reuse 
the name in every new block! It's extremely handy when you have let's 
say 20 subroutines in one asm file and every of that routines has some 
simple loop -- so instead of creating labels like routine1_loop I use 
just ".loop" everywhere. Quite handy, isn't it?

2. "|" comments. I know, there's --bitwise-or option but in this case 
"#" has to be used as comment (I don't count /* */ because it's quite 
unpractical for one line comments and "//" doesn't work) and this is 
very confusing with using of "#" for immediate constants... Is there any 
reason why ";" and "*" symbols aren't used for this? (at least for this 
platform where it's really standard?)

I'm sorry if I'm asking for something already discussed, I'd be happy to 
read something about this. And if it wasn't discussed, I'd like to know 
what do you think about this features...

Best regards,
Miro Kropacek





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