Re: Compiling to C (where C is used as misspelled assembly)

fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
25 May 1997 13:00:11 -0400

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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 25 May 1997 13:00:11 -0400
Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
References: 97-05-183 97-05-197 97-05-259
Keywords: C, assembler, architecture

Will Partain <partain@dcs.gla.ac.uk> writes:


>GHC goes further than the other C-as-assembly efforts: it also
>*post-processes* the .s file from GCC -- done by the much-feared,
>much-hated "mangler" (written in Perl)! Things it tries to do:
>... utterly remove use of register windows (SPARC); ...


Yes, register windows are a pain for this sort of thing.
Fortunately gcc has an option to solve that now: `-mflat'.


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