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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:25:29 -0400
To: ograbme <ograbme@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What assembler(s) do you folks use with FreeBSD?
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On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:15 PM, ograbme wrote:
> I've been playing with the gcc compiler along with Perl 5.8.8 (both
> supplied with FreeBSD) and have enjoyed it.  I got to thinking about
> what assemblers (hopefully of the 'free' variety) you folks have used
> or may be using on FreeBSD. In my case, the standalone platforms
> contain Intel x586, x686 and AMD K6-2 500 MHz cpu's.

Most people use the stock assembler, 'as', which comes with the system:

% as --version
GNU assembler 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23
[ ... ]

-- 
-Chuck