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| From | arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) |
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler? |
| Date | Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:31:18 +0000 (UTC) |
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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! -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 50 729-7545 D.N. Shimshon 99785 ISRAEL
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Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-27 23:46 +0000
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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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