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   Marco van de Voort to Jim Leonard   
   Re: Pascal Macro Compiler   
   11 Apr 05 10:03:40   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-04-11, Jim Leonard  wrote:   
   > Marco van de Voort wrote:   
   >> 2. 16-bit<>32-bit assembler   
   >> solution: don't use 16-bit assembler in this day and age.   
   >   
   > Sorry, but you're not me and don't know what I program for and why :-)   
   > At no point was I demonstrating a need for a "fix", just providing an   
   > example.   
      
   Maybe I have not expressed myself clearly, and should have said "MY   
   solution"   
      
   >> A. make builds generators   
   >> B. generators get called and create .incs   
   >> C. main program is compiled and includes the generated .inc   
   >> The advantage of this:   
   >> - no garbage in source.   
   >   
   > ...but you have additional source files that need to be recompiled if a   
   > change is made.   
      
   The macro processor must also store it results.   
      
   >> - no other programs necessary except compiler and MAKE (which is   
   > quite   
   >>   universal)   
   >   
   > With in-line tables generated by a macro, no .INC generator needed :)   
   >   
   > At what point did you think I wanted solutions?  I was just   
   > illustrating what I use macros for (in assembler, btw).  Just trying to   
   > help the macro compiler guy...   
      
   And I was saying what I did to solve the same problem.   
      
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