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Article #2756Re: Delayed Branches
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1986 01:30
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1986 01:30
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> First, I don't believe the Assembler should
> reorganise code. The purpose of assembler code
> is to allow the user total control over what
> the machine will do...
John Mashey has already rebutted this in some detail. I'd like to add one
thing: I think we have an unrecognized cultural difference here. The Unix
community assumes that compilers generate assembler, while a lot of other
people assume the compiler goes direct to binary. Reorganization at the
assembler level makes rather more sense when you realize that *all* code
goes through the assembler. I.e., most of the code going into the assembler
was *not* written directly by humans.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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