On 24 November 2010 12:44, Sharanbr <sharanb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This might be a non standard usage, so please bear with me. > > I am in the process of writing a tool. The idea is that the user puts > comments at certain points of his program. > The comments have specific keywords. Once the code is compiled to generate > assembly code, I would like to parse through the assembled code and then > extract certain information based on the comments inserted in the code. The > second part of the application is when the same process is followed to > extract information from the linker output. For example, I would like to > extract the physical address from which the current instruction is being > executed. Can someone point me in the right direction if GCC has support to > preserve the comments in the code as it assembles and links the code? Nothing shoots out at me if gcc supports this, but i would imagine using some nice inline asm use, you could possibly achieve something akin to what your trying to do. --Phil
