From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 21 5:13:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D0537B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D74E43ED8 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:13:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id C4973536E; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:13:13 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: David Cuthbert Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030119130825.00b21ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030119133833.00e422f0@localhost> <200301201620.37863.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <3E2B89EC.4000107@kanga.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:13:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3E2B89EC.4000107@kanga.org> (David Cuthbert's message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:32:28 -0500") Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Cuthbert writes: > Inline assembly syntax -- that is, C code containing bits of assembly > instructions -- isn't portable, anyway. The GNU solution is certainly > unique, though not very usable to those of us who teethed on Borland > compilers. I prefer separating the C and assembly completely, and > bringing them together at link time. GCC's way of handling inline assembler code is in no way unique, as anyone who had the pleasure of using Watcom C/C++ will testify. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message