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Comment by Levitating

16 days ago

> 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.

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.