[fpc-devel] Assembler file option (-a)

[Marco Borsari]

Il giorno ven, 31/12/2021 alle 17.32 +0200, Christo Crause ha scritto:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 4:41 PM Marco Borsari via fpc-devel
> <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > on Linux with FPC 3.2.2 the executable size of programs compiled
> > with
> > fpc -On -a (tried with n 2 or 4)
> > is smaller than when the assembler files are deleted (-a omitted).
> > Does it is an expected behaviour?
> > 
> 
> 
> Using any of the -a options (not sure about -a5?) to output assembly
> also automatically switches to an external linker (for targets with
> internal linkers).  Differences in the executables are thus
> attributable to differences in generated output between the internal
> and external linkers.

Thank you for the clarification
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