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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:01:37 +0300
From:      Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
To:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com>, FuLLBLaSTstorm <fullblaststorm@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standardcompiler?)
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In-Reply-To: <20090115122805.GA48561@freebsd.org>
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Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:28:05PM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote:
> 2) llvm uses special "bytecode" that gets compiled into native machine
> code so technically speaking "classic" assembler is not needed for llvm/clang.

Hmm, what about assembly statements inside C sources or pure assembler
sources?  May be my definition of a "classic" differs from yours, but
for we need assembler at least for the .S files.  Do you mean that some
supplementary assembler should be added to the llvm/clang suite?
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