[patch] m68k: Use ASSEMBLER_DIALECT

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Mon Aug 27 20:23:00 GMT 2007


Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@sygehus.dk> writes:

>    (I've never understood the point of the MIT syntax: Presumably, the
> Motorola syntax appeared first. Why invent something clearly inferior to
> replace it?)

I think the point was that the MIT syntax is easier to parse, at a time
where cpu power and memory were scarce resources.

Andreas.

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