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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Message-Id: <199601180847.TAA04433@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
To: jdp@polstra.com, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc: proposed change
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
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>> Why not:
>> 
>>  	movl	$ ## FOO,%eax
>> 
>> Instead?
>> 
>> If it hits the preprocessor first, it should be no problem.

>Clever idea, but it won't work.  The `##' operator has meaning only
>within a macro expansion.  I double-checked the ANSI C standard, just to
>make sure.

 	movl	$ FOO,%eax

works, but is ugly and would require too many source code changes.  It
used to be used a lot in /sys/i386/i386/*.s.

Bruce