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"Jerry van Dijk" <somename@nospam.demon.nl> wrote in message
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>
> Freejack <user@nospam.com> writes:
>
> > As far as I can tell the GNAT system expects everything to be in GAS
(Gnu
> > Assembler) syntax and it expects the Assembler to be GAS.
>
> To be precise, GAS is only a front-end for the real assembler 'as'.
> The idea of GAS was to make it a little easier to write assembler by hand,
as
> 'as' is really meant to assemble machine generated code.
>
> For the GNU system (which includes gcc and thus GNAT) 'as' is the standard
> assembler on all platforms.


I don't think this really is the right way to be precise here.

The GNU Assembler, which people often call GAS gets built and installed
(typically) as a binary
called as.  GAS is not a front-end for a real assembler. GAS is a real
assembler. Calling GAS essentially
a front-end or preprocessor (which is essentially the feeling one gets from
the above post...although certainly
not the words of the above post) seems a little misleading.