[Bug admin/18997] Please enable AS and LD in configure.ac for OS X

[gingold at adacore dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18997

--- Comment #3 from gingold at adacore dot com <gingold at adacore dot com> ---
> On 27 Sep 2015, at 00:54, noloader at gmail dot com <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18997
> 
> --- Comment #2 from Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail dot com> ---
> (In reply to address@hidden from comment #1)
>> as and ld haven't been ported to mac os x (as native tools).
>> Not sure wether it is worth given there are already open source (but
>> non-free) tools.
> 
> I believe AS is a required tool in the suite because of the way inline 
> assembly
> is handled by the compiler. LD is probably going to be a stretch (but I'm only
> guessing).

Ok, I think you are asking for the support of .intel_syntax.

> 
> To ensure I'm not missing something obvious, what other non-free tools did you
> have in mind, and how would they be used? Is it a non-free compiler that can
> consume the inline assembly? Or is it a different assembler that GCC can use
> when processing the inline assembly?

The sources of apple assembler, based on a very old version of gas are
available
from opensource.apple.com.  But it is deprecated.
Xcode is now based on clang, which has its own assembler.

Likewise for the linker.

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