as(1) for aarch64 (Was: Re: gcc for aarch64)

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 08:04:02AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
> Clang's integrated assembler is mostly compatible with GNU as, but
> there are some macro constructs etc. that it does not handle. So it's
> not fully a drop-in replacement.
> 
> The arm64 kernel and base system assembles source files by invoking
> the compiler driver (as do other architectures for most, but not all,
> of their asm source).
> 
> Users who need to invoke the assembler directly should indeed install
> binutils from ports or packages.

Thanks.  I'll see if I can get away with Clang's integrated assembler,
and fall back to `devel/binutils' if that won't work.

./danfe