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Did you write a translator or fix the assembler itself?

• saurik 14y ago
  As I had hoped was clear from context (but I guess wasn't), I was definitly implementing these features for the assembler. In addition to being a better result (for example, requiring fewer changes to the compiler I was also spending a lot of time trying to get cobbled together out or Apple's fork of gcc 4.0, mainline gcc 4.2, and the LLVM gcc 4.2 project that, while generated horribly broken code due to LLVM being a horrible target for ARM, had a ton of Apple internal patches; alternatively one could edit every app that required these features to mess with a preprocessor, but that would scale horribly), it was actually much easier to do... implementing the full gas macro system outside of gas and its assembly parser seems unneccessarily brutal: often you just needed to fix tiny things, like "this argument is now optional" or "you can now specify this as a variable".