Desired Compiler Features

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:21 pm

cartlemmy wrote:Agreed, I hate having to go line-by-line to comment something out.

If Notepad++ is configured for the language you are using (so that it knows what the comment symbol is), you can select several lines and comment or uncomment them all at once with a single command. Because of that, the lack of multi-line comments doesn't bother me much.

In ASM, if I need to temporally skip a bunch of code, and timing and code-alignement are not important, I just JMP over the code.

cartlemmy · Post by **cartlemmy** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:49 pm

clueless wrote:I'll use ".if 0", ".endif" to temporarily disable them.

OH jeez, why didn't I think of that!?

tokumaru wrote:...I just JMP over the code.

Or that.

Ian A · Post by **Ian A** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 8:33 pm

67726e wrote:Ok, optimizations aside, what are features you would like to see in an assembler?

One of the things I am really set on having is block comments (/* */).

CA65 can do block comments if you enable them with .FEATURE. I thought about using them, but then was like 'meh'.

Also, on CA65 they'll eat any newline characters between the open and closer.