[cfe-dev] Pre-processing assembly sources

[Martin J. O'Riordan via cfe-dev]

Yes, unfortunately our assembler uses ';' to start a comment to end of line :-(

Thanks,

	MartinO

-----Original Message-----
From: cfe-dev [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Sonnenberger via cfe-dev
Sent: 11 August 2016 13:52
To: 'Clang Dev'
Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] Pre-processing assembly sources

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Martin J. O'Riordan wrote:
> Thanks Joerg.
> 
> I have another question about pre-processing for assembly sources.
> 
> C and C++ do not distinguish newline from any other kind of 
> whitespace, and the expansion of a macro has no embedded newlines 
> (keeps line tracking happy).
> 
> But assemblers typically process a line at a time, so a macro such as:
> 
>   #define LOAD_and_ADDI(n) \
>     LD  r1, r2 \
>     ADDI r1, r1, n
> 
>   LOAD_and_ADDI(0x20)
> 
> expands to:
> 
>   LD  r1, r2 ADDI r1, r1, 0x20

This is normally dealt with by separating the instructions explicitly with ";".

Joerg
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