Date:	Wed, 02 Nov 1994 19:06:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject:	Re: Embedded assembler and comments
To:	u940422 AT daimi DOT aau DOT dk
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization:	Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>You wrote something like:
>> How can you tell GAS to run a .s file through the preprocessor?
> 
>It should be possible to name the file .S, but DOS can4t tell the difference.

So?  Just use a capital `S' when you type the command.

>I use another approach, naming my assembler files .asm. I then call the 
>prepocessor with instructions to name the output ending in .s (gasp -o switch)
>and after that I use the prepossesed file in any normal compile fase.

.asm could be a bit confusing--it generally denotes Intel's syntax, not
whatever bizarre (wrt Intel's) syntax GAS likes.

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