inline-asm/10870: Problems with # as comment character in asm code

inline-asm/10870: Problems with # as comment character in asm code

[bero]

>Number:         10870
>Category:       inline-asm
>Synopsis:       Problems with # as comment character in asm code
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 19 18:16:01 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     bero@arklinux.org
>Release:        3.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
Ark Linux 1.0 alpha 8
>Description:
Using gcc foo.S, with foo.S being an assembler file, works,
unless the assembler file includes comments in the style

# foo

with # being the first character in the line (gcc mistakes it as preprocessor directive).

Not 100% sure if this is a bug or an intentional feature removal; used to work in older releases.
>How-To-Repeat:
Compile e.g. syslinux 2.04
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

Re: inline-asm/10870: Problems with # as comment character in asm code

[neil]

Synopsis: Problems with # as comment character in asm code

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: neil
State-Changed-When: Mon May 19 20:12:14 2003
State-Changed-Why:
    Works for me.  Or you might submit a proper bug report that is more helpful than "it doesn't work" with no testcase.
    
    monkey:neil{1}$ echo '# foo' > /tmp/foo.S
    monkey:neil{2}$ gcc-3.3 -E /tmp/foo.S
    # 1 "/tmp/foo.S"
    # 1 "<built-in>"
    # 1 "<command line>"
    # 1 "/tmp/foo.S"
    # foo

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