[M3devel] assembly goes to C compiler?

[Jay K]

asssemble is used for cm3cg output
C is used for user-written assembly
 
 - Jay

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> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:36:25 +0200
> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] assembly goes to C compiler?
>
> Quoting Tony Hosking :
>
>> 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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