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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 21:44:36 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Assembler weirdness?
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> 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