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: Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:48:44 -0800 : From: Doug Evans <devans@cygnus.com> : : 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? : : 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. Well one compiler I worked on did this, but it did have to include a disassembler so that it could support the -S option. : (or am I missing your point?) : : I'm not sure but I think so. Nick