Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 347 from 2003/10/12
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AS and LD will not be longer needed in some future and fpc will make all the job for generating MorphOS binaries?
To replace AS, one needs to implement an object binary writer into the compiler. Such a thing only exists for some of the i386 targets now, all other CPU targets, including PPC, currently using various external assemblers.
There is currently no way to replace LD, because there is only some very basic work done to have an FPC linker (and this is true for all targets).
To replace AS and LD is quite a low-priority target, because assembling and linking is transparent to the user, and except for probably some slight speed advantages, there is no difference between using an internal or external assembler/linker. Do you have any problems with GNU AS/LD, or why do you want to avoid them?
If you dislike GNU tools, it's pretty easy to implement support for other external assemblers/linkers, however, currently i see no need for that.
