From: | Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> |
Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
Date: | Sat, 16 Oct 2021 23:55:12 +0200 |
Organization: | Compilers Central |
References: | 21-10-017 21-10-018 21-10-025 |
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Keywords: | history |
Posted-Date: | 16 Oct 2021 18:15:55 EDT |
In-Reply-To: | 21-10-025 |
On 10/16/21 7:16 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> "To compile" is an attractive word in that it means putting stuff
> together
The same applies to "assemble" at machine level.
I could imagine that at that time the result was more important than
sophisticated handling of source code. A portable C compiler also is
assumed to output executable modules where other compilers rely on a linker.
DoDi
[The Bell Labs portable C compiler output assembler source code, although
most people didn't notice since it normally assembled it and threw the
assembler code away. Last time I checked gcc and clang do the same. -John]
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