Re: [avr-gcc-list] Common symbol definitions for assembler

[Erik Christiansen]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:20:41AM +0200, Artur Lipowski wrote:
> What use group I don't know but I and many people (eg. in avr-libc) prefer
> to use "avr-gcc -x assembler-with-cpp" instead of avr-as.
> This give you full potential (and problems) of the C preprocessor.
> Additionally you not need to have separate includes (headers) for C and
> assembler.

   Thank you, Artur. (I've just finished working on a PowerPC project
   that had replicate C and assembler "headers". It was a nuisance.)

   While awaiting a reply, I found in the gas info:
>>>
   You can use the GNU C compiler driver to get other "CPP" style
preprocessing, by giving the input file a `.S' suffix.
<<<

   However, changing test.s to test.S, and adding:

#define SPH 0x3E

   still gave:

test.S:69: Error: constant value required

   with line 69 being:

   out   SPH,r16              ;RAM is bigger than 256 Bytes.

   This seems to clearly show that no macro substitution was made.

   So your method has two advantages: It works, and it doesn't require a
   funny filename suffix.

Regards,
Erik