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Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127
- To: root at chaos dot analogic dot com
- Subject: Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:48:19 -0500
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:37:02 -0500 (EST), "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
>I think that assemblers (as opposed to compilers) should be specifically
>written for a platform. We have at this company collectively, about
>100 years of Intel Assembly expertise. To force a foreign language
>(GNU pseudo-assembly) on long-time assembly-language experts tends
>to dampen their interest in becoming involved in helping to streamline
>sections of code that are frequently executed.
The syntax used by GAS is the same as the syntax used by many (all?) Intel
Unix assemblers. Since GAS was intended as a drop in replacement for Unix
as, not DOS as, this was the right choice. Complaining endlessly about it
is a waste of everyone's time.
I bet you Intel syntax can be converted to AT+T/GNU syntax in less than 50
lines of Perl. Write the script once, run it on the fly when compiling, and
be happy.
zw