[erlang-questions] compile: making asm and core official

[Peer Stritzinger]

On 2013-11-25 03:16:11 +0000, Richard A. O'Keefe said:

> On 23/11/2013, at 11:56 AM, Peer Stritzinger wrote:
>> 
>> I find the choices of *.core and *.S unfortunate, since they are used 
>> for core dumps and native assembler files on many unixoid systems.
> 
> More precisely, the UNIX convention is to use ".s" for assembler,
> but some POSIX systems (like Mac OS X) ignore alphabetic case when
> matching file names.  I have found the use of .S something of an
> annoyance on occasion.

The uppercase ".S" extension is to my knowledge used for assembler that 
need C preprocessing.

I checked with GNU make and BSD make: both run the C preprocessor on 
files with ".S" extension to create a file withe ".s" extension.  Of 
course on case insensitive filesystems this wont work.

Cheers
-- Peer