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Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler?

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the moderator wrote:
>[They produce code directly.  Unix compilers are pretty much the only ones
>that run through the assembler, and that's because the PDP-11 Unix system
>had an assembler so fast that it wasn't much slower than generating the
>object files directly. -John]

Sadly, modern Unix assemblers are slower.  When Ken Thompson wrote the
C compiler(s) for Plan 9, he went to generating object code directly.
And that was circa 1989!
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Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler? compilers@is-not-my.name - 2011-04-27 21:19 +0000
  Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler? Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> - 2011-04-27 19:05 -0400
    Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-27 23:46 +0000
  Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-27 23:22 +0000
  Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler? arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2011-04-29 07:31 +0000

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