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

[Joerg Wunsch]

As David Gay <address@hidden> wrote:

>While we're on this: why did avr-as choose to use $ as a line
>separator, and ; for comments?

Don't ask me, i wasn't the person porting gas to the AVR.

My guess is that this has been made since ; is a very common
comment character in assembler languages, so porting other AVR
assembler code to gas is a bit easier.

>Also, gcc allows $ in identifiers, which leads to exciting assembler
>output when you do that with avr-gcc ;-)

Pah, whoever introduced the $ line-endings probably didn't think about
/that/.  OTOH, it's likely that each and any other ASCII character
might have caused other wonderful surprises as well.

But then, the $ in identifiers is a rarely used gcc feature.  IIRC it
has only been done in order to be compatible with certain other C
compilers (on Vax/VMS perhaps?, DEC used to use $ identifiers in
system programming, at least that's what i remember from my RSX-11
days).  However, to be safe, the AVR port of gcc should probably
disable the $ feature then.
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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
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