Re: [avr-gcc-list] How to do multi-line assembler macros?

[Brian Dean]

Hi Oleksandr,

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:22:55PM +0300, Oleksandr Redchuk wrote:

> Why do you not use "native" assembler macro capabilities?
> (and local labels inside macro)

Yes, I learned of the '.macro' directive while I was trying to figure
out how to use the C preprocessor to acheive my goal, and wrote a very
similar looking macro to the one you suggested and it works fine.
Thanks though!

However, there is one advantage to using the C preprocessor and that
is that you can preprocess the file to stdout and see exactly what is
being sent to the assembler.  For example, given my input file of
foo.S, I can say 'make foo.s' and see how the macro expands.  I
couldn't seem to figure out how to do the equivalent when using the
'.macro' directive, even when turning on the assembly listing (the -a
flag).  As a result, I'd get cryptic assembly errors due to errors in
my '.macro' but was only able to guess as what may be causing them.
Eventually, by trial and error, I figured it out, but it would have
been easier had the assembler been able to print out the macro
expansion in the listing file.

Cheers,
-- 
Brian Dean, address@hidden
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