Re: Ada and ASM

[Jerry van Dijk <somename@nospam.demon.nl>]

"Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> writes:

> > To be precise, GAS is only a front-end for the real assembler 'as'.

> 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.

I checked again and you are certainly correct as to what the current manual
says. I am pretty sure it didn't use to be like this, but I am not going to
install an old binutils to find out (but maybe someone happen to have one
installed ?). Otherwise I might just be aging prematurely :-)

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