bottom up....
If you assume a machine with say, 4 registers, kinda like a
6502 say, but 32 bits, with about 30 instructions, how many
Linux-capable CPUs does the assembler for that critter run
on as-is? Such a cretin-asm would be near-useless for optimizing,
but might have other uses, and I'd just be interested in comments
on this. For Linux-capable-space I guess you can assume some
non-6502 stuff, like an unlink_stackframe thingy, and a
supervisor mode maybe.
>
>"We've got two standards, oh no lets solve it by having three"
>
>Please tell me that isnt what you mean
>
top down.....
gcc has no inate love of the C programming language. It's extensions
are about being as much like a portable assembler as possible, IMO.
So maybe in a sense we have 2.!0 standards.
This pertains also to the guy who doesn't want to port his
INTEL(TM) inline assembly. How much of your assembly looks like C
to gcc?
just curious.
Rick Hohensee
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