[fpc-devel] Setting the compiler to always use gas

[Florian Klaempfl]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> It seams that Gnu assembler does produces object files compatible with
> CodeWarrior Linker, and fpc internal assembler does not. So, I would
> like to set the symbian compiler to always use GNU As.
> 
> On i_symbian I see those lines:
> 
>            assem        : as_i386_pecoff;
>            assemextern  : as_gas;
> 
> Being that the assemblers are declared like this:
> 
>     type
>       tasm = (as_none
>             ,as_gas                   { standard gnu assembler }
>             ,as_i386_as_aout
>             ,as_i386_coff
>             ,as_i386_pecoff
>             ,as_i386_elf32
>             ,as_i386_pecoffwdosx
>             ,as_m68k_mit
>             ,etc
> 
> Am I write to think that as_gas means using GNU As as external
> assembler, and that as_i386_coff is a Internal Assembler? So, to set
> fpc to always use external assembler, I would change those lines to:
> 
>            assem        : as_gas;
>            assemextern  : as_gas;
> 
> And if not, what is the nice way of telling fpc to always use gnu as?

Probably correct. Just check the output of -va to see what it does.

> 
> thanks,