Add highlighting for assembler (.s)

[kchibisov]

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Would need a tree-sitter grammar for that.

[naclsn]

If I may; a problem with assembly 'language' suport is which? I have a tree-sitter-nasm which I used a fair amount for nasm assembly, but it probably won't handle eg. gas syntax well...

[kchibisov]

I mainly see gas, since that's what everything dumps by default... Would be nice to have some primitive highlighting for both of them.

[A-Walrus]

It would also be nice to use the asm tree sitter for inline assembly in languages such as Rust, C/C++ ...

[kchibisov]

I'm pretty sure that you can't do that with rust, given that its syntax is a bit different from what I remember or has a different more usable for form compared to C/C++.

[A-Walrus]

Yeah you're right, it has a different syntax:

unsafe {
    asm!(
        "mov {tmp}, {x}",
        "shl {tmp}, 1",
        "shl {x}, 2",
        "add {x}, {tmp}",
        x = inout(reg) x,
        tmp = out(reg) _,
    );
}

I suppose a tree-sitter parser for rust-inline-assembly could be written and used, but that's a separate feature.

[jtepe]

If I may; a problem with assembly 'language' suport is which? I have a tree-sitter-nasm which I used a fair amount for nasm assembly, but it probably won't handle eg. gas syntax well...

I would be highly interested in having nasm support. IIRC, it's also highly used out there. Separate gas support would also be nice.

[kdwarn]

Gas syntax is not yet included, correct? If that's the case, should this issue be reopened until it is or should another issue be created?

[the-mikedavis]

Yep only nasm is currently supported. I think a new issue for gas is perferrable