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In referenced article I asked:
>Does anyone have, or know of the existance of a tool that would read a MASM
>source file, apply the conditional preprocessing, and output the
>"conditioned" source file without assembling.
>.....
>Thanks, if you reply by email I will summarize to the net.


No specific program was identified, but several people suggested that the
'C' preprocessor could be used.  This is of course not ideal for a number of
reasons.  Either you have to duplicate assembler conditionals and 'C'
preprocessor conditionals, and stand the risk of differences between the
two, or you must only use 'C' conditionals and carry the overhead of the
preprocessor pass during assembly.

If done from the start of a project, it's probably possible to organize all
the conditionals such that they can be converted between assmbler and 'C' by
the simple addition of a leading '#' only at the time the "conditioned
source" is required.

I'm still interested if anyone knows of a program that will do this on the
assembler syntax directly.


Thanks to:

Jim Carter  uunet!ucsd.edu!sdsu!csufres!ic2020!jim
Rich Wilson uunet!hplsla.hp.com!richw
Rick Wagner uunet!nrc.com!rick
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