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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: fledgling assembler programmer
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gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> writes:
>Not so long after I started learning OS/360 Fortran and PL/I, I found
>the compiler option for printing out the generated code in sort-of
>assembly language.  (Not actually assembleable, though.)
...
>Compilers today don't write out the generated code in the same way,

Unix (Linux) compilers like gcc usually write assembly-language code
if you use the option -S.  This code can be assembled, because AFAIK
that's the way these compilers produce object code.

- anton
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