Re: [Open64-devel] Two Questions.

[Christophe G. <chr...@st...>]

>> 1) Why does cg.so generate object files? should't it just generate the 
>>...
>Writing object files directly isn't any more difficult than writing 
assembly files

Hum... You should take care when saying this. The open64 machine description includes the encoding information, thus it helps a lot. Though, computing 
PC relative offsets for instance is more work than just emitting a label name.

Nevertheless, there is a major blocking problem to activate object code emition 
in the open64 back end, which makes this feature unusable: GNU asm statements.
If you want gcc compatibility you are bound to emit assembly level representation.

	-- Christophe