Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

[Michael ODonnell]

>>> Gasp is considered 'obsolete'.  The bintuils-gasp is the only
>>> remnant of it, for applications that require it.
>>
>> Ok, I'll ask the obvoius follow-up question -- obsoleted by what?
>> What do use instead if we want to code Assembler with a F/LOSS
>> tool-chain?
>
>
>If gcc supports the processor you're targetting you can get a
>sense of the assembler support available to you by dummying up
>some test code in C and then seeing what gcc emits when asked
>to stop translation after the assembler code generation phase.
>
>Something like this:
>
>   gcc -S myDummyProgram.c
>
>...should result in the creation of myDummyProgram.s
>
>You mentioned the "gnu assembler macro processor" but the only
>part of the Gnu tool chain that I ever use for macro processing
>is the "standard" preprocessor (whose man page says, "Modern
>versions of the GNU assembler have macro facilities"  BTW...)
>
>In olden days we used m4 for macro processing.  It ain't pretty
>but, depending on your purposes, it can be very effective.


Oh, and for completeness I probably (duh!) should have suggested:

   man as