Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I just learned something I did not know. I was under the impression that they >translated directly to machine code without ever actually generating Assembler >text files.
Some do, some don't. It's an implementation chioce. gcc generates a text file and pipes it to gas. The __asm__ directive just adds strings to the assembler file. Visual C++ generates machine language. The compiler has to include an assembler for inline assembly. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
