Assembler parses comments

[charlesUnixPro]

$ cat foo.asm
; this is a comment with an embedded apostrophe (')
; this is a comment with two embedded apostrophes ('')
; this is a comment with an embedded quote (")
; this is a comment with two embedded quotes ("")


$ ../assembler/asm foo.asm
foo.asm:1:50: warning: missing terminating ' character
 ; this is a comment with an embedded apostrophe (')
                                              ^
foo.asm:3:45: warning: missing terminating " character
 ; this is a comment with an embedded quote (")
                                             ^
qasm2rom: 0 ROM lines written.

[sy2002]

@charlesUnixPro Thank you Charles. This is a known issue. We worked around in past by instead of writing

; this is the register's value

we wrote

; this is the value of the register

Admitably not great 😈

I assigned this one to Bernd - maybe he comes up with some ideas of how to fix that in V1.7; but it also might be that this one stays until we implement issue #20 "Make native assembler independent from external preprocessor"

[bernd-ulmann]

Mirko is right, this error is caused by my sloppy way of using the C-preprocessor for the assembler, and the C-preprocessor does not understand our ";" comment delimiter.

This problem will be solved when we have our own (simple) preprocessor for the assembler that does not rely on the C-preprocessor, so I fear it won't be fixed prior to 1.7.