Re: [9fans] Assembler weirdness?

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

You mean ##? Okay, but since 8a doesn't have an option to issue the
standard C preprocessor (cpp(1) - 8c has -p), I'll see what I can do.

On May 17, 2008, at 9:44 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:

>> Hello. I'm trying to switch from GCC/NASM to the good old Plan 9
>> tools
>> to get a simple kernel I'm writing compiled and working with 9load
>> (which fortunately is Multiboot-compliant). But there is one file -
>> an
>> 8a-ized hand-me-down interrupt service routine array - that is
>> causing
>> problems. Running
>>
>> 	8a /n/sources/contrib/pietro/jamesmol.s
>>
>> yields the errors in /n/sources/contrib/pietro/jamesmol.out. But if I
>> first preprocess with cpp(1), which produces /n/sources/contrib/
>> pietro/
>> jamesmol.fixed, everything works fine with 8a. What's wrong?
>>
>> - Pietro
>>
>> PS - This is when I hate macros.
>
> i believe 8c disapproves of string pasting.
>
> - erik
>
>