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From: pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark)
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Subject: Re: g++ 1.39 installation. help
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.223457.17413@src.honeywell.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 22:34:57 GMT
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>Then again, don't be so sure that /bin/as isn't gas.  Though I can't
>check without an OD-capable system at hand, I believe that NeXT
>distributed as source with the other GNU source in 1.0.  Thus, I
>would tend to believe that as is gas by another name.  Try it!

My hunch is that /bin/as on the next is GAS 1.28, modified by next. Try:

localhost% strings /bin/as | grep as

For those of you without the spirit to try it for yourself, here's the last
few lines of the output. Note that the assembler knows about obj-c, and I'd
bet GAS straight off prep.ai.mit.edu doesn't.

objc_class
objc_meta_class
objc_class_vars
Bignum assumed to be binary bit-pattern
Internal Error:  Can't hash %s: %s
Gnu assembler version 1.28 (I guess.)

	Pete