gasp, yet again, fails to die

gasp, yet again, fails to die

[Johann Oskarsson]

Hi,

I'm using a rather old version of binutils on playstation 2 (mips) and 
ran into problems with .ent/.end pairs as gasp treats .end as eof.  I 
fixed this, with a little crude hack and the results can be seen at my 
web page http://cosmos.raunvis.hi.is/~johannos/

Soon after that I found out that gasp has been depricated, but since 
some ppl seemed to want to use it I am willing to continue supporting it 
as a new project, independent of binutils, if there is any demand for 
it.  I've already renamed it to masp (so it wouldn't conflict with the 
old gasp in my path), be it mips or myrkraverk assembly preprocessor, or 
whatever.

Any comments?


Johann

Re: gasp, yet again, fails to die

[Eric Christopher]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 19:01, Johann Oskarsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a rather old version of binutils on playstation 2 (mips) and 
> ran into problems with .ent/.end pairs as gasp treats .end as eof.  I 
> fixed this, with a little crude hack and the results can be seen at my 
> web page http://cosmos.raunvis.hi.is/~johannos/
> 
> Soon after that I found out that gasp has been depricated, but since 
> some ppl seemed to want to use it I am willing to continue supporting it 
> as a new project, independent of binutils, if there is any demand for 
> it.  I've already renamed it to masp (so it wouldn't conflict with the 
> old gasp in my path), be it mips or myrkraverk assembly preprocessor, or 
> whatever.
> 
> Any comments?

You might want to look and see if sony has a new version of binutils. We
did some work for them to fix things up so that gasp was unnecessary for
them.

-eric

-- 
Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>

Re: gasp, yet again, fails to die

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Johann,

> Soon after that I found out that gasp has been depreciated, but since
> some ppl seemed to want to use it I am willing to continue supporting
> it as a new project, independent of binutils, if there is any demand
> for it.  I've already renamed it to masp (so it wouldn't conflict with
> the old gasp in my path), be it mips or myrkraverk assembly
> preprocessor, or whatever.
> 
> Any comments?

Good luck :-)

Since the GASP sources were distributed under the terms of the GPL,
there is no problem with you using them in your MASP project,
providing of course that you retain the GPL licensing.

If you have a web site for the project we can even add a link to it
from the binutils web page.

Cheers
        Nick

Re: gasp, yet again, fails to die

[Johann Oskarsson]

Hi,

Nick Clifton wrote:

>Since the GASP sources were distributed under the terms of the GPL,
>there is no problem with you using them in your MASP project,
>providing of course that you retain the GPL licensing.
>
Of course ;-)  

>If you have a web site for the project we can even add a link to it
>from the binutils web page.
>
My first, sort of a trial, release is at 
http://cosmos.raunvis.hi.is/~johannos/masp/
I still have to rewrite the documentation and do a lot of other stuff 
before I call this a *real* release.

My version of masp is based on binutils version 2.13.1, if anyone knows 
of changes to gasp since then, plz let me know.  I'll do a diff of the 
CVS version later though.


In hope that masp becomes useful to somebody,

Johann