DefMod and Objasm

[Stewart Brodie]

In message <9dcd11ac4a.tom at compton.compton.nu>
          Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> Does anybody know why DefMod gives the -stamp and -quit switches when
> it invokes Objasm?
> 
> The -quit switch is listed in the current manuals as being ignored but
> accepted for compatability purposes, and -stamp isn't mentioned at all
> but does seem to be accepted by Objasm.
> 
> The reason I ask is simply that the unix cross-assembler in the GCCSDK
> doesn't support either switch so I had to strip them out of Stewart's
> portable defmod to get it working.

-Stamp causes the filetype of the output file to be set appropriately, but
only when objasm has been built as aasm, it seems.  So it's another option
that does nothing in objasm but is there for backward compatibility.

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