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Re: [PATCH v2 0/10] Tilera (and Linux asm-generic) support for glibc
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> It's easy enough to produce a generic linker/librarian/objdump; but much
> harder for things like the assembler. For the compiler the overlap is
Yes, the assembler hasn't even started on having a target vector
abstraction at all; it's all still macros and magic function / variable
names. (Although a complete conversion of the assembler could well end up
a smaller project than finishing the target hook conversion in GCC, since
the assembler is so much smaller and simpler.)
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