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Re: Patch: several m68k fixes


On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:21:12PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> >From what I've seen of existing code, this would be a simply huge
> amount of work, no?  Everything seems to rely on outputting ASM to a
> file, down to the macros that expand into sections of a switch
> statement (ugh..)

A lot of work, but not as much as you'd think.  Almost everywhere we
output assembly it's a hook through which the backend actually does
the printing.  No reason the "print" routine couldn't be an interface
to the assembler backend.


r~


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