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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:22:31 -0400
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1@outlook.com>
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. 		 	   		  

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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