In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/17/2008
at 02:07 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>To the extent that machine-level instructions are present in open code
>(similar to PL/X GENERATE), they are there because they are doing things
>that the compiler cannot do. This is true on ANY operating system
>written in ANY language; there are times when only machine language
>(platform assembler) will do.
Sometimes it's for efficiency reasons. And sometimes the assembler code
gets replaced by code in another language, e.g., ALM code replaced by PL/I
in Multics.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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