<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><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; ">MAYBE see if batching cm3cg/as can save more time.<br>Other folks have complained on the gcc mailing list that gcc should just output .o files directly..</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><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><br><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; "><br> <br> - Jay<br><br><blockquote><hr id="EC_stopSpelling"><br>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jayk123@hotmail.com">jayk123@hotmail.com</a><br><br>[snip]<br> <br>> Have you had a look at System.ExecuteList and q_exec?<br> <br>Sorry, not yet.<br>Yes it sounds like it will fix the sh wrap issue. But not the fork/exec vs. spawn, which I will deal with.<br> <br>> compiler backend. Integrated backends can be developped independently<br>> of gcc though.<br><br>Yes, I think more of these will be good.<br> <br> - Jay<br><br></blockquote></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>