From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-08-29, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   > On 8/29/2025 1:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Also, what makes you think that the GNU gas of that era will still   
   >> be suitable for today's compilers ?   
   >   
   > I would expect Alpha assembler to still be Alpha assembler.   
   >   
      
   And are you sure that VMS gas 2.8 will support all of the following:   
      
   https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Pseudo-Ops.html   
      
   (Those are just the current target-neutral directives).   
      
   > The instructions are obviously the same.   
   >   
   > And I find it unlikely that anyone has spend time the last 25   
   > years adding advanced macros and pseudo instructions to the   
   > Alpha assembler and the compiler.   
   >   
      
   That's not where the problem is. You need to think at a higher level   
   than that. Notice that I said today's compilers which may rely on   
   underlying features not present in that old VMS Alpha version of gas.   
      
   Alpha is but one BFD target. Compilers do not talk to the VMS Alpha   
   gas directly. The following may help you understand the overall flow:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_File_Descriptor_library   
      
   Simon.   
      
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