Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler?

arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:31:18 +0000 (UTC)

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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:31:18 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net
References: 11-04-040
Keywords: assembler
Posted-Date: 02 May 2011 00:50:06 EDT

the moderator wrote:
>[They produce code directly. Unix compilers are pretty much the only ones
>that run through the assembler, and that's because the PDP-11 Unix system
>had an assembler so fast that it wasn't much slower than generating the
>object files directly. -John]


Sadly, modern Unix assemblers are slower. When Ken Thompson wrote the
C compiler(s) for Plan 9, he went to generating object code directly.
And that was circa 1989!
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