As discussed on the mailing list, I plan to introduce an ml-compatible MASM assembler as part of providing more of the Windows build tools. This will be similar to llvm-mc, but with different command-line parameters.
This placeholder is purely a stripped-down version of llvm-mc; we'll eventually add support for the Microsoft-style command-line flags, and back it with a MASM parser.
You should probably add this in this commit as well :)