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Subject: Re: Should JAL be added to the gputils?
From: Craig Franklin
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 21:26:50 -0500

Byron A Jeff wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:26:07PM -0500, Craig Franklin wrote:
> > I am always happy to get a bug report.  If you want to sponser a
> > hackaton, do it.
> >
> > The problem isn't knowing were the bugs are.  You only have to run the
> > testsuite to find them.  I also have an application note test.  It
> > compiles all the app notes and reports the ones that don't pass.
> >
> >
> > I receive very few bug reports.  I am not sure why.
> 
> I do. Because gpasm works flawlessly the vast majority of the time. And that's
> due in no small part to the hard work that you've put in. And I'd like to let
> you know how much I really appreciate it.
> 

Thanks.

> >  I have read a few
> > complaints on other lists, but those people never submit bug reports.
> 
> Guilty! ;-)
> 
> > So I have a request.  If you have a feature or bug that you need
> > resolved, please add it to the trackers on sourceforge.
> 
> Will do. My bugaboo piece of software is Wouter's wloader source that does
> a bunch of funky macro expansions and token pasting. I'll download the latest
> gputils and retest so that I can point out the errors.
> 

Wouter definitely pushed the limits of mpasm's capabilities.  It's not
like mpasm is always bug free.  I wonder if it ever has problems with
wloader.  From time to time, I do try to assemble it with gpasm.  Things
get better, but there are still problems.

You will have problems with the way he conditionally includes files. 
That is a known problem that will be fixed in 0.11.3.

> BAJ
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