From:	ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject:	Re: New import library format proposal.
16 Apr 1998 09:53:13 -0700 :
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To:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com
Cc:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

   Date: 16 Apr 1998 11:59:18 -0400
   From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)

   Is it even acceptable for the linker to invoke as?

No.

Fortunately, the ways in which dlltool uses the assembler can be
handled directly within the linker.  dlltool doesn't really need to
use the assembler at all.  It could do everything using BFD.

Ian

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