On Nov 13, 2018, at 10:39 AM, Peter Bergner <berg...@linux.ibm.com> wrote: > > On 11/13/18 12:06 PM, Iain Sandoe wrote: >> As far as I expect, Darwin should be untouched by this - we have a separate >> assembler (which doesn’t even respond to -many), so unless there’s some >> higher level translation done (it’s not mentioned in any Darwin specs), we >> should just carry on as before. > > Ah, good then. > >> When I do expect things to change is when multiple .machine directives are >> included in asm sources. >> (probably) the old cctools assembler won’t deal with them properly > > Usually when there are multiple .machine's being used, they should be used > with the ".machine push" and ".machine pop" directives so the temporary > .machine value doesn't corrupt the .machine value being used for the rest > of the file.
> Hopefully the cctools supports that. Likely not. The modern tools don't for x86_64.
