-v and -vv
Matthew Fluet
fluet@CS.Cornell.EDU
Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:57:50 -0500 (EST)
> > I didn't see the assembler ever being called in the -v output. Clearly that
> > should be fixed up.
>
> There are calls to gcc which call the assembler. I remember trying to switch
> those to calls to "as" at some point, but it didn't work (I don't remember why)
> so I switched it back.
Right now they won't work as calls to "as" because the __LINE__ directive
needs to be processed by cpp. Also, at one point in time, there was a
difference between the character constants for cpp and for "as", but I
think that now I convert all character constants to their ordinal values.