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From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: New RISC compilers????
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Date: 15 Mar 91 22:38:21 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.194516.12093@colorado.edu>,
grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) writes:
>
> does the new compiler compile directly to .o files, or does it go to
> an assembler pass?
> 

The C compiler uses the MIPSCO backend, so there is no change there. 
The main change
is the ANSI C frontend.

The Fortran compiler uses a new backend which generates ".o" files
directly.  There
is no assembly step.

						Frank