[fpc-devel] FPC's -A option

[Jonas Maebe]

On 28 Nov 2012, at 12:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> What is the intent of
>
>      -Adefault  Use default assembler
>      -Aas       Assemble using GNU AS
>
> 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)?

-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.


Jonas
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