[LLVMdev] Absolute assembler output

[Eli Friedman]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Richard Pennington<rich at pennware.com> wrote:
> Currently, I generate asm/as/ld the resultant file. I was thinking that
> it would be interesting to modify gnu as to read a (simplified) linker
> script file and do the (simplified) locating itself.
>
> Does that sound completely out of whack? If so, maybe a few more cups of
> coffee will make the idea go away.

I recall someone else proposing making the in-progress LLVM direct
object emission code do something like that.  It should be feasible,
although I think it's probably not worth the effort.

-Eli