From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,edb329885d962c1d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-06 10:18:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Jerry van Dijk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and ASM Date: 06 Sep 2003 19:16:14 +0200 Organization: JerryWare Message-ID: References: Reply-To: somename@nospam.demon.nl User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42212 Date: 2003-09-06T19:16:14+02:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey Creem" 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 :-) -- -- Jerry van Dijk, Leiden, Holland -- Note that email address is invalid