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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Reference ports, etc. (was Re: Nasty bug in release 4 Bourne shell)
Message-ID: <5291@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 18:24:40 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I believe that's what Sun and AT&T thought, but I can imagine
>existing COFF-producing retargetable code generators and other such
>tools which could be ported to SPARC much more easily if the supplier
>did not have to change object formats at the same time.

That's one nice thing about having your compilers generate assembler
code rather than object code - they don't have to know quite so much
about object-file formats, because they leave that knowledge up to the
assembler....