Re: Compilers producing assembly language

harvard!drilex!dricej
29 Nov 87 09:56:39 EST (Sun)

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From: harvard!drilex!dricej
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
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Organization: Data Resources/McGraw-Hill, Lexington, MA
Date: 29 Nov 87 09:56:39 EST (Sun)

The only other compiler which I have heard of which generates intermediate
assembler was the CDC FTN compiler. My experience is years old, but at the
time I dealt with it (mid '70s) FTN generated assembler. It had its own
stripped-down assembler that it used to assemble things; I think that this
one could access the symbol table from previous passes. There was a command-
line option to use the system assembler, however. This also allowed you to
get the assembler file in a form that you could work on and hand-optimize.


Of course, many student and internal compilers generate assembler. We've
got a internal compiler around here; the project to make it generate
direct object code never seems to get off the ground. It's cheaper and
quicker to buy more iron to run it on.
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Craig Jackson
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