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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:22:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <m3wu42am0e.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (Ian Lance Taylor's message
 of "26 Apr 2004 09:48:01 -0400")
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Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> Given that we are going to stick with a text file to communicate
> between the compiler and the assembler, it makes sense to me to
> eliminate parsing in the assembler as much as possible.  We have text
> generated by one program and read by another program; parsing is
> useless overhead.  That is the idea behind #NO_APP.

Currently (gcc 3.4.0) there are 5 targets that actually make use of
#NO_APP: arm, cris, m68k, ns32k and vax (and m68k-linux didn't in gcc
3.0.x upto 3.3.x due to a side effect of including "elfos.h", which
redefines ASM_FILE_START).

Andreas.

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