Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

[Bob Bell]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:37:40PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I found an old copy of binutils that comes with gasp. It still doesn't 
> answer why gasp is gone.
> 
> As for m4, m4 could be used to write gasp but to start out with m4 would 
> be a huge pain just as it would be to write something in assembler if you 
> have a C compiler. ;-)

I've been quietly reading along, but finally decided to try and found
out what the "official" recommended replacement for GASP is.  Thus quoth
the GAS docs:

"The as internal preprocessor ... does not do macro processing, include
file handling, or anything else you may get from your C compiler's
preprocessor. You can do include file processing with the .include
directive ... You can use the gnu C compiler driver to get other .CPP.
style preprocessing by giving the input file a `.S' suffix."
    -- http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.17/as/Preprocessing.html

I would seem that the expectation when dropping GASP is that people
would use CPP now.  At least, that's my best attempt at interpreting the
situation.

-- 
Bob Bell