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List:       gcc-bugs
Subject:    Re: x86 assembly output
From:       Richard Henderson <rth () cygnus ! com>
Date:       1999-10-30 18:06:32
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On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:57:41AM -0500, Robert Lipe wrote:
> > According to Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual page 3-286...
> 
> GCC, by default, emits 'AT&T assembler syntax' for IA32 targets.

And, because Intel paid through the nose for it, the new ia32
backend has the completely useless switch `-mintel-syntax' 
that produces output of the form described in that SDM. 

I say useless because only GAS will accept what gets emitted.
To get something like MASM to eat the code, you'd have to 
change all of the surrounding non-instruction bits of the
assembly -- sections and extern symbols and such.

Yawn.  I suppose still that the bulk of the work is done, and
it wouldn't be impossible for someone to gen up the headers
needed, but it still seems pointless.


r~

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