Statement syntax proposal

[kingcom]

Statement syntax proposal

[Kingcom]

Hm, that makes sense. The other intended purpose was to allow multiple opcodes/directives on a single line. for example for longer nop chains that would otherwise blow up the number of lines quite a bit. Can you think of a decent way to handle these too?

[sp1187]

In Python you can use ; to put multiple statements in a single line. That character is used for comments here, so you can't use that one of course, but something similar could be used. GAS seems to use @, ! or $ for some architectures.

[Kingcom]

Yeah, but when I thought about it I couldn't think of something that looked nice. The C expression syntax takes care of almost all possible symbols unfortunately.

[sp1187]

One option may be adding a .repeat/.endrepeat directive or something similar repeating a sequence N times.

EDIT: Forgot that @ is used for local labels...

[sp1187]

The most viable character I can think of for a statement separator is backtick (```).
A bit ugly, but some architectures in GAS seems to actually use the backtick for this purpose, and I guess it won't be used all that often anyway, so I think it would be feasible.

[sp1187]

Do you have any plans of implementing this currently? I would have tried myself but I'm afraid I don't quite understand the parser enough yet.

[Kingcom]

I think I have a decent idea how it could be implemented, but I'm afraid I don't really have the time to do the proper testing at the moment. If you want though, I could talk to you about it and the parser, like somewhere in IRC.

[sp1187]

Sounds interesting. I'm usually available at #n64dev in EFnet.