Parmenides <mobile.parmenides@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > what's the meaning of the following slice of code? > > #APP > # 10 "asmtest.c" 1 > nop > # 0 "" 2 > #NO_APP #APP means that the following code was written by the user, rather than generated by the compiler. #NO_APP means that the following code was written by the compiler. In some cases the GNU assembler uses a different approach to parsing code generated by the compiler (i.e., after #NO_APP), because it knows that the whitespace will be very regular and some types of code will never appear. Ian