>>> On 11/5/2013 at 12:54 PM, Ze'ev Atlas <[email protected]> wrote: > Adopt the methodology of the Unix, Linux and Windows echosystems, abandon any > assembly whatsoever, license C and write all code in that language.
Not quite. Performance critical sections are sometimes still written in hand-crafted assembler, particularly in the Linux kernel. If it weren't for that, I would just as soon see the ability to embed assembler in C source code be removed from GCC. Putting assembler code in applications makes them a real pain to port to different operating systems and architectures, and so in general not cool. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
