<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 28 Nov 2012, at 12:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">What is the intent of<br><br> -Adefault Use default assembler<br> -Aas Assemble using GNU AS<br><br>on classic unix systems e.g. SPARC and MIPS? Is it that -Aas selects gas (and assumes that gas's command-line is consistent for cross-builds etc.) and that -Adefault selects whatever variant of as is provided by the non-GNU unix (e.g. Solaris and IRIX) provided by the originally-dominant manufacturer (e.g. Sun and SGI)?<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>-Adefault simply selects whatever the compiler uses as the default for the platform. That may be GNU AS, or something else. Normally, if multiple assemblers are supported then there will also be a separate -A option to explicitly select this other assembler.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jonas</div></body></html>