[M3devel] assembly goes to C compiler?

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:

> Using the C compiler allows the assembly to have preprocessor  directives.

So you think it's a feature. Why do we have the assemble methods
in the config file then? Or are they just legacy?

%----------------------------------------------------------------  
assembler ---
% "assemble" is called to assemble .s or .asm files.  Note that this function
% is only called if your program or library explicitly includes  
assembly source
% code, the system distributed by Critical Mass does not.

proc assemble(source, object) is
     if defined("configure_assembler")
         configure_assembler()
     end
     return try_exec("@" & SYSTEM_ASM, source, "-o", object)
end

Probably a remnant of DEC SRC M3?

Olaf
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