Re: Why do we still assemble?

rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:59:34 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Keywords: assembler, design, comment
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: 94-04-032 94-04-054
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:59:34 GMT

hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker) writes:
> Other than sheer institutional inertia, why do we continue to compile into
> assembler code, then assemble the code into relocatable binary?
>[Easier for C compilers to provide asm escapes with underlying assembler]


In article 94-04-054 bill@travis.csd.harris.com writes:
>Not all C compilers provide _asm directives (ours doesn't)...


It is perhaps worthy of note that implementors do not have this option
in the case of C++. So-called `asm directives' are a part of the current
draft C++ standard. Implementors *must* provide them.
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