[fpc-devel] Using -a or -s option forces change to external assembler

Jonas Maebe jonas at freepascal.org
Sun Aug 22 20:43:58 CEST 2021


On 22/08/2021 16:48, Christo Crause via fpc-devel wrote:
> Would it make sense to implement an alternative interpretation, where
> the internal assembler is used if specified/default with just an output
> writer for the -a case?

The compiler only supports activating a single assembler writer at a
time. I'm not sure it worth reworking that logic just to support writing
a text assembler file and then assembling using the internal assembler.

> In the case of -s there would be no assembler
> output, so the user can then only check and tweak the linking step.

You can use the -Cn parameter for that.


Jonas


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