<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Blurg! Tools should do well what they are supposed to do and do no more than necessary. Assemblers are good at assembling, so why reinvent the wheel?</div><div><br></div><div>See: <a href="http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/302">http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/302</a></div><div><br></div><div>The counterpoint to this argument is Windoze...</div><div><br></div><div><html>On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Jay wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">I understand, but it need not be this way.<br> <br><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-05/msg00318.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-05/msg00318.html</a><br> <br>GCC is the last compiler I'm using that doesn't have an integrated object file generator. It's way past<br>time to integrate BFD, opcodes, etc. or whatever other solution to replace this generate-text-and-pipe-it-to-the-assembler '70s technology.<br>That means one less thing on the host that may not match GCC's expectations. (e.g. AltiVec register names and the host assemblers)<br> <br>- Jay<br><br><br><blockquote><hr id="EC_stopSpelling">CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:wagner@elegosoft.com">wagner@elegosoft.com</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:m3devel@elegosoft.com">m3devel@elegosoft.com</a><br><div><blockquote><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000">[snip]</font><br></blockquote><div>gcc itself is a top-level driver program that generates as and forks an as. I don't think it's possible to do what you suggest.</div><blockquote> </blockquote></div></blockquote></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>