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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Assembler weirdness?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 21:44:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff677f45d439684ac59c6e2f6880c4e4@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3E5593F-94F9-447F-8DD6-BD3788D2F14C@mac.com>

> 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




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-18  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-18  1:38 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-18  1:44 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-05-18  2:21   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-18  2:56     ` [9fans] Linker weirdness? (was: Assembler weirdness?) Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-18  4:01       ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-18  4:35         ` [9fans] Linker weirdness? Robert William Fuller
2008-05-18  4:45           ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-18 12:02       ` [9fans] Linker weirdness? (was: Assembler weirdness?) erik quanstrom
2008-05-18 12:36         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-18 15:57       ` Richard Miller

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