RE: ELF binaries when only wishing to produce assembler code...

[mpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Murphy)]

Sun is correct that pro64 generates assembly code for ia64,
so it should be relatively straightforward to do that
for another architecture.
But just to clarify, it is possible to still generate elf directly;
we do this internally for mips elf (however we don't open-source 
all the files involved in the mips target).
-- Mike Murphy
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