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Subject: Re: Compilers producing assembly language
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Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 09:56:39 EST
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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.
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Craig Jackson
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