Re: [jamboost] As-action?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-09 11:05:23

[2003-07-09] Paul Schmidt wrote:

>In the version of allyourbase.jam I have there are rules defined for
>Cc, C++, etc. that redirect to e.g. Cc-Action. However, there does not
>appear to be a pair for As and As-Action - the rule for As is:
>
>rule As
>{
> DEPENDS $(<) : $(>) ;
> ASFLAGS on $(<) += $(ASFLAGS) $(SUBDIRASFLAGS) ;
>}
>
>This seems to be preventing me from creating a new As-Actions rule in
>my tools-specific .jam file, in the sense that if I change this in
>allyourbase.jam, I'm concerned I'll have to then fix all of the other
>toolset files, or at least, all the ones we use. 
>
>It might be as simple as redefining AS, but even so, what is the
>reasoning behind this? Or is it just historical, that is, no one has
>yet bothered/needed to implement As-Action?

It's entirely historical. There's been no need to for compiling assembly
files ;-\

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