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#Amiga Dev in general

    24-Jul-90 20:44:55
Fm: Mike Spille/Manx 71545,1466
To: Tom Eshelman 73717,3446
Lattice uses a 'quad' file between compiler passes (I assume this is their intermediate language), but the final result is a BLink-compatable object module. This is the 'official' Amiga object module format. However, every major library vendor that I'm aware of supplies libraries/object modules commercially in _both_ formats, for both compilers. Thus, 99% of the time the object format used is a moot point. The fact is, for just about everybody it doesn't make a lick of difference what the obj format is, as long as it all links into a proper executable. A major plus regarding compiling into assembly code is in finding bugs. Every compiler has them, and being able to look at the assembly code w/ intermixed C code (as comments) is alot better than trying to disassemble an object module. -Mike