> > I get these, too.  In locore.s and microtime.s, we have to either:
> > 1) eliminate all ' characters in assembler comments (start with #)
> > 2) convert all assembler comments to C-style comments.
> 
> Or 3) stop pretending that the C preprocessor is a general purpose macro
> processor...

It's too bad there's no way to automatically invoke m4 on sources.
There are so many things i like about using m4 for assembly code...

cgd