> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:52:58PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 07:42:43PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > > 
> > >  > I realize that - I just thought that it might be fixable in gcc!
> > > 
> > > Not really.  GCC doesn't actually know what ASM line separarator are,
> > > since it doens't use them itself.
> > 
> > Not quite true.  GCC does know what the separator is, so that it can count 
> > the number of instructions in an __asm__ statement.
> > 
> > See IS_ASM_LOGICAL_LINE_SEPARATOR.
> 
> Which '\n' is always an alternative for, and the only value for arm/aof.h
> 
> Maybe \n will always work instead of ; ?
> 
> 	David
> 

No, it's looking for a physical newline characters in the string, not a 
logical one (ie the char '\n', not the character sequence '\\' 'n').  You 
can't have physical newline characters in a macro.

R.