macro's and arguments

[Mischa Baars]

On 10/16/2012 04:38 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 16.10.12 09:45, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> But no, this is nothing that needs fixing - macro arguments are
>> separated by commas or blank space (unless parenthesized) -
>> see the documentation of .macro. It arguably is a possible
>> enhancement to allow for a mode where only commas separate
>> them (I have been missing this at times, too).
> Yes, an opt-in additional mode would protect existing code in the wild.
> Having long used "blank space" parameter separation, to allow gas to
> compile small languages, I'm more than a little partial to the existing
> default behaviour.
>
> Some example statements, handled by gas macros are:
>
>     start_timer A 70 mS
>
>     if p1 is 0
>
>     if it isnt Standby     ; Following a test macro.
>
>     if event includes <some_bitmask_parameter>
>
> Perhaps though, there are other syntaxes where lots of commas are nice.
>
> Erik
>
That's nice, however the cvs server appears to be down, so people can 
only contribute to the latest stable release.

Mischa.