Re: Ada and ASM

[Wes Groleau <groleau@freeshell.org>]

>>>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,

When compiling Ada or C or ?, an intermediate stage
is assembly language.  This is passed to whatever assembler
the installation is configured to use.  On Solaris,
'gas' and 'as' are two independent assemblers, and _either_
can be called by the compiler.  And it worked fine
when 'gas' was not installed.

For ASN/machine code insertions, IF there are any syntax
differences, I would _speculate_ that you have to use
the one that works with the assembler you will be using.

-- 
Wes Groleau

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