Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:22:31 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1@outlook.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Assembly continues to be used in the development of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20140408022231.GA77004@jerrymc.net> In-Reply-To: <COL127-W467DCAD7917F70A0590C7BE8680@phx.gbl> References: <COL127-W467DCAD7917F70A0590C7BE8680@phx.gbl>
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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.
Use higher level compilers where possible.
Use assembly/machine code where you have to.
It doesn't hurt to know assembly though -- along with use of macros.
////jerry
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