Re: How would *you* use an intern?

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>]

On 30-May-2001, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> 
> ... integrate the assembler into cc1, like we've already done for cpp.
> 
> Ideally, you'd want to generate binary code directly from rtl,
> rather than generating and then parsing assembly code, but a
> useful intermediate step may be to go via text, but write the
> assembly text to an internal buffer rather than a file.

That sounds like a good idea to me, especially the approach of going
via an internal buffer.  You should be able to get a speedup there
with relatively little effort or complication, while still supporting
inline asm.

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