https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80782
--- Comment #7 from René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail dot com> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #6) > I assume something like --with-as=llvm-as doesn't work. Nope. > It would require > configure to know how to detect the llvm assembler and know how to invoke it > correctly. The latter is the bigger problem, and not for configure to solve but for the compiler driver. > If Apple's gas already understands the llvm assembler options then > leveraging that seems sensible. So all that would be needed is a way to > configure GCC to always use -Wa,-q Indeed. As I said in my previous comment: "It would be useful if GCC could be configured to include platform-specific arguments for the default assembler, in this case `-q`." I presume that --with-as="/path/to/as -q" would try to execute an executable called "as -q" but haven't tried.