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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: New RISC compilers????
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Date: 13 Mar 91 19:45:16 GMT
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does the new compiler compile directly to .o files, or does it go to
an assembler pass?

if so, will this new assembler be available?

if so, does it support debugging directives (something the MIPS assembler
does not do).

this has ramifications for Gnu C and G++.

thanks

Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)
						(grunwald@cs.colorado.edu)