I compiled everything Sunday and installed it - now I can't get the
kernel to build due to bad  characters found by as.  I managed to
demonstrate the problem with a small file (I know that the syntax
is bad)

The comments above each #define indicate what whitespace is on each
line
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/* CONSTANT0<space><tab>45 */
#define CONSTANT0 	45
/* CONSTANT1<TAB>76 */
#define CONSTANT1	76
/* CONSTANT2<SPACE>91 */
#define CONSTANT2 91
/* CONSTANT3<tab><space>3 */
#define CONSTANT3	 3

	mov	$CONSTANT0,eax
	mov	$CONSTANT1,eax
	mov	$CONSTANT2,eax
	mov	$CONSTANT3,eax

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now, you run this through cpp and you get:

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# 1 "grod"









	mov	$	45,eax
	mov	$76,eax
	mov	$91,eax
	mov	$ 3,eax

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Note that CONSTANT0 & 3 were replaced by '<tab>45' and '<space>3'
which causes as to barf - is this know or am I the only idiot?

Thanks

-- 
Dave Cornejo                                There is nothing so subtle
Dogwood Media                                           as the obvious
Fremont, California

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