On Tue, 26 Dec 2023, Kyle Perik wrote:

> Do you think there's a way to avoid a different .s file?

In theory, there should be a way...

> I'm a C/ASM
> novice so forgive my ignorance

We are all learning here.... Is it possible to check
what assembler ("as" command maybe) is used on your system?

I try to reproduce the problem with a recent clang compiler
and everything works as expected (but I'm not on a Mac).