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[perl #40379] [TODO] investigate use of tools/dev/as2c.pl
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Jerry Gay
Sep 20, 2006, 12:56:10 PM9/20/06
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i'm not sure tools/dev/as2c.pl is used, as the only makefile that
calls it isn't generated (config/gen/cpu/i386/Makefile), it's not
platform-independent, and the files it generates are committed to the
repository.
~jerry
Leopold Toetsch via RT
Sep 20, 2006, 2:24:30 PM9/20/06
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The plan behind of as2c.pl is and was to create compiler independant
machine code for an architecture. masm, gas, nasm, whatever syntax
doesn't fit all compilers. Therefore as2c.pl translates gas syntax to a
bytestring, which is then used as the asm code.
as2c's usage is indeed scarce: when the code is generated once and
checked in, there's usually no need to change it later.
machine code for an architecture. masm, gas, nasm, whatever syntax
doesn't fit all compilers. Therefore as2c.pl translates gas syntax to a
bytestring, which is then used as the asm code.
as2c's usage is indeed scarce: when the code is generated once and
checked in, there's usually no need to change it later.
leo
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