From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Doug Evans <devans@cygnus.com>
Cc: rearnsha@arm.com
Subject: Re: other apps that assemble code
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 09:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199802051741.RAA14888@sun52.NIS.cambridge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199802051703.JAA28107@canuck.cygnus.com.>
> Can anyone think of any useful applications that want to
> assemble code besides an assembler?
>
> A debugging session?
> [I can see perhaps only a minor usefulness here, but maybe there are
> cases where it's really useful, and maybe there are other examples.]
How about a compiler. It doesn't have to spit out assembly language
directly, and might be able to do a better job in some cases if it could
write an object file directly. (or am I missing your point?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-05 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-05 9:04 Doug Evans
1998-02-05 9:26 ` Joel Sherrill
1998-02-05 9:37 ` Doug Evans
1998-02-05 9:47 ` Joel Sherrill
1998-02-05 9:57 ` Doug Evans
1998-02-05 10:38 ` Robert Lipe
1998-02-05 23:26 ` Richard Stallman
1998-02-05 10:49 ` Joel Sherrill
1998-02-05 11:09 ` Doug Evans
1998-02-05 9:43 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
1998-02-05 9:49 ` Doug Evans
1998-02-05 10:35 ` Nick Clifton
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