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Date: | Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:58:29 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au> |
cc: | Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>, DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: Why not build in inline 80x86 assembly, like in borland C |
In-Reply-To: | <199710080016.KAA12039@rabble.uow.edu.au> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.971008105621.28262K-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Brett Porter wrote: > But surely the compiler can "compile" the Intel asm to AT&T format, the same > way it compiles the C++ source to AT&T code? How can you expect a C or C++ compiler to be able to compile assembly, which is an entirely different language? Would you expect it to be able to compile a Pascal program, for example? It just can't, it only understands a single source language.
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