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achierius04/24/20251 replyview on HN

> just like those Assembly developers thought compiling via Assembly text generation and feeding into an Assembly would still be around

Confused by what you mean. Is this not the case?


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pjmlp04/24/2025

No, only primitive UNIX toolchains still do this, most modern compilers generate machine code directly, without having to generate Assembly text files and executing the Assembler process on it.

You can naturally revert to old ways, by asking for the Assembly manually, and call the Assembler yourself.