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

[Cyrill G. <gor...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 06:33:35PM -0400, Frank Kotler wrote:
> 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?

Hi Frank! I agree with Ed, that it's nasm abuse and lines are
to be splitted.