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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-12-06 11:48:06 (GMT)
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Help: Document that ASM should be enabled last
ASM should be enabled after C and/or CXX because we consider the compilers for those languages as possible assemblers. Issue: #17532
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@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ Enable a language (CXX/C/Fortran/etc)
This command enables support for the named language in CMake. This is
the same as the project command but does not create any of the extra
variables that are created by the project command. Example languages
-are CXX, C, Fortran.
+are ``CXX``, ``C``, ``CUDA``, ``Fortran``, and ``ASM``.
+
+If enabling ``ASM``, enable it last so that CMake can check whether
+compilers for other languages like ``C`` work for assembly too.
This command must be called in file scope, not in a function call.
Furthermore, it must be called in the highest directory common to all