On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:19:57AM -0800, Saleem Abdulrasool wrote: > This provides an interface for the frontend to disable assembly parsing. This > is needed in the case where inline assembly is being processed to an assembly > output (.s). In this case, it is preferable to not parse the assembly for > correctness. The Linux kernel, for example, takes advantage of this to > use the compiler as a preprocessor to generate a specially crafted "assembly" > file to be post-processed.
Without a further clarification for why exactly the Linux kernel has to create invalid assembler, I see no good reason for adding such complexity. Joerg _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
