From: Doug Evans <devans@cygnus.com>
To: richard.earnshaw@arm.com
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: other apps that assemble code
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 09:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199802051748.JAA28227@canuck.cygnus.com.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199802051741.RAA14888@sun52.NIS.cambridge>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:41:27 +0000
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.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.
Yes, but in this case does the compiler internally create assembly code
and then parse that assembly code to spit out the object file?
Maybe there is a compiler that does so, but I would think it would just
keep the insns internally in some form and not deal with assembly code at all.
(or am I missing your point?)
I'm not sure but I think so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-05 9:49 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
1998-02-05 9:49 ` Doug Evans [this message]
1998-02-05 10:35 ` Nick Clifton
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