Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Compilers producing assembly language Message-ID: <767@ima.ISC.COM> Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 09:56:39 EST Article-I.D.: ima.767 Posted: Sun Nov 29 09:56:39 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 08:42:20 EST Sender: johnl@ima.ISC.COM Reply-To: harvard!drilex!dricej Organization: Data Resources/McGraw-Hill, Lexington, MA Lines: 21 Approved: compilers@ima.UUCP In-Reply-To: <765@ima.ISC.COM> The only other compiler which I have heard of which generates intermediate assembler was the CDC FTN compiler. My experience is years old, but at the time I dealt with it (mid '70s) FTN generated assembler. It had its own stripped-down assembler that it used to assemble things; I think that this one could access the symbol table from previous passes. There was a command- line option to use the system assembler, however. This also allowed you to get the assembler file in a form that you could work on and hand-optimize. Of course, many student and internal compilers generate assembler. We've got a internal compiler around here; the project to make it generate direct object code never seems to get off the ground. It's cheaper and quicker to buy more iron to run it on. --- Craig Jackson UUCP: {harvard!axiom,linus!axiom,ll-xn}!drilex!dricej BIX: cjackson -- Send compilers articles to ima!compilers or, in a pinch, to Levine@YALE.ARPA Plausible paths are { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale | cca}!ima Please send responses to the originator of the message -- I cannot forward mail accidentally sent back to compilers. Meta-mail to ima!compilers-request