From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <199802051741.RAA14888@sun52.NIS.cambridge>
References: <199802051703.JAA28107@canuck.cygnus.com.>
X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00027.html

> 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?)