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Proposal: Require that GAS be built before GCC in a unified tree
- From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:09:32 -0500
- Subject: Proposal: Require that GAS be built before GCC in a unified tree
The point of this proposal is that GCC's configure.in has a ludicrous
number of tests for assembler features which split into two: one if
there's an actual assembler to test, one if it hasn't been built yet
(which does hairy version-number examination).
If we required that GAS build before GCC in a unified tree, we could
eliminate that half of the code, and just use the standard tests on the
newly built gas. It would be a great savings in clarity.
What do people think?
--Nathanael