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		Levitating on Jan 15, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Customasm – An assembler for custom, user-defined ... > but retains the property that the output doesn't depend on the compiler or its flags? That's not an inherent property of assemblers, and not the case in practice either.

IshKebab on Jan 15, 2025 [–]

Yes I know there are some minor caveats with pseudo-instructions and relocations but in general it is basically true. You can't wildly change the output without changing the source like you can with C.

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