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10 years ago

Assembly Include/Header File?

Hello all, I am currently working on an assembly design that will require the equivalent of a .h file in which I can# define certain constants used in the design. I am aware of doing this in c ...
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10 years ago

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The convention with GCC is to use .S (upper case) for assembler files that need to be pre-processed and .s (lower case) for files that do not.

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I believe I have it figured out. Please let me know if anything I have stated is invalid.

I will want to change my file extension to .S. In this file, i will# include a header.h file that will contain my# defines for whatever constants I want. When I go to build, The GCC compiler will preprocess my request to include the header.h file.