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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
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Subject: Re: Assembly continues to be used in the development of FreeBSD?
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:16:50PM +0300, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote:
> According to the book "Complete and Total C" by Herbert Schildt, the
> general rule is not to use Assembly because it creates too many
> problems.

In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they differ.

Joerg