[Nasm-devel] Bug? Or Nasm-abuse?

[Frank K. <fbk...@my...>]

Hi list,

Since you're looking at bugs, Cyrill, let me run this one by you. This 
came to my attention from a question at "Stack Overflow" (why would 
anyone call themselves that???). A guy was getting an "interminable 
macro expansion" error message. He was trying to include an insanely 
large (IMO) lookup table. I think the actual problem was that he was 
putting everything on one insanely long (IMO) line. I'll attach the 
Python script he was using. I don't know Python, but was planning to try 
to "hack" the script to use multiple lines but, well... I haven't gotten 
around to it. If anyone knows Python, I imagine it's easy. I have 
confirmed that an include file of similar size, but on multiple lines 
works fine. I have also confirmed that we can assemble his file by 
increasing the value of DEADMAN_LIMIT in preproc.c to 1<<31. I don't 
consider it a "bug" that needs to be "fixed", but I promised him I'd 
discuss it with y'all. Any thoughts?

Best,
Frank