[Mac-on-linux-devel] init.S assembly macros

[Leslie V. <les...@gm...>]

Hello!

I see in another thread which I cannot reply to, Joe speaks of cleaning up
the assembly code
(
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=48BAF655.3040905%40sokrates.homelinux.net&forum_name=mac-on-linux-devel
).

Playing around with it, I can see that the problem is the multi-line macros
that the GNU assembler
does not appear to support. Since there's not much assembly I was thinking
of just unrolling all the
macros into normal code.

But first:

1. Is there some way that GAS can support multi-line macros?
2. Does m4 interpret and expand the #define's?
3. If so, can some trick be done in asm.m4 to support them?

If those tricks won't work, would I accomplish anything by
unrolling the macros? I don't know enough about PPC assembly
to contribute much more.

Les