Assembly continues to be used in the development of FreeBSD?

Tue Apr 8 02:34:34 UTC 2014

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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