Library to assemble from memory

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:03:25PM +0200, Daniel Diaz wrote:
> > produced object is not so big (2 Mb for instance). It appears that a lot
> > of time is wasted in disk I/O. I'm reorganizing my compiler to avoid my
> > intermediate files (and keeping them in memory) but I cannot do the same
> > for the .s file beacause gas is a command-line tool accepting a file. I

My only comment here is that on a decent operating system the input to
gas won't be read from disk but should be available from memory.  You
may not even write the temp file to disk.

> > would prefer avoid to play with pipes for portability reasons (under
> > native win32 - arg !) and I would prefer to generate the .o from
> > assembly source stored in memory (as a string for instance). So it would
> > be very usefull to have a library to perform assemble from memory. In
> > order to speed up the parsing (tokenizer) it would be interesting to
> > have a way to inform gas that the input is "simple" (e.g. only contains
> > 1 separator character between tokens, ...).

#NO_APP does this.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre