From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:37:40 -0500
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Subject: Re: Backslashes in debug info
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> I guess I'm confused by the name "BFD assembler".  From your
> description, it sounds like it's simply an improved assembler, but
> instead of developing the old code, it was rewritten from scratch,
> more or less?  Is that right?

From what I've read in the logs, gas/doc/internals.texi, etc. there was the 
original a.out assembler which was then improved to become the non-bfd 
assembler. The bfd version came along and then eventually there was some sort 
of merger (for example gas/config/obj-coffbfd.c was merged with 
gas/config/obj-coff.c using BFD_ASSEMBLER to separate the equivalent code).

Mark