[comp.os.minix] Problems with MINIX-ST assembler files

Christoph van Wuellen <HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> (06/01/91)

Now I have switched completely to the DECUS cpp instead of the MINIX cpp
(which cannot process large files and whose source is not available),
I discovered a bug in the MINIX assembler files.
The following example says it all:

#

! This is an assembler file
! This line won't compile
! This line isn''t offended.

In the assembler comments (which look like plain code to cpp), there are
unterminated strings. My opinion is that this should NOT be fixed in cpp,
but that this is a plain error in the assembler files. It affects only a
few files (3 or so: lib/atari/crtso.s, kernel/stmpx.s kernel/copy68k.s)

Is it possible to fix this in further MINIX versions although is makes no
with the 'official' cpp?
C.v.W.