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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM
Does GCC translate into assembly and then call the assembler separately, or go straight into machine code?
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edited 23rd Feb '11 1:17:22 PM by Tzetze
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"has analgesic properties", so maybe that slight pain relieving is addicting?
@Tzetze: This document
, documenting the passes of the GCC compiler as of 4.4.1, seems to imply assembly language output which would then need to be assembled.
However, I'm pretty sure there are verbose options to GCC that will have it describe exactly what it's doing, for more accurate answers.
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