Re: depreciate asm with -traditional-cpp?

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:05:46 +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> appearently it doesn't need much to have .S files
> compiled without the -traditional-cpp flag, at least
> on i386. It is just the concatenation operator where
> label names are synthesized which needs to be changed.
> Are there good reasons to stick with traditional syntax?
> (Background of my question is that I'm playing with
> clang which doesn't support "-traditional-cpp".)

At least one of the reasons for -traditional-cpp is that some
architectures use # as literal prefix, e.g. on sh3:

  mov #0, r0

Now, consider you need to use this instruction in a macro, where C99
cpp interprets # as stringification.

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