Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 13:03:23 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: randyd@nconnect.net (Randy DuCharme) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assembler programming Message-ID: <199606151103.AA113416604@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <31C18946.2807@nconnect.net> from "Randy DuCharme" at Jun 14, 96 10:46:14 am
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In his e-mail Randy DuCharme wrote: > Greetings, > This may be another dumb question, but can one do 'pure' assembly > language programming under FreeBSD? If so, how? In DOS / WINNT I used > MASM 6.11. Any good books on this subject? Any recommendations on GOOD > reading on the GCC compiler & libraries? Of course you can. You could use gas, for instance (GNU assembler, a part of GCC.) As to why you *don't* want to do any pure assembly, see the -questions archives from about a month ago. (in a few words, the compiler will 99.9% of the time generate better code than a human; modern CPU pipelining makes for "interesting"(TM) optimization possibilities.) /Marino P.S. As someone said, documentation on C in unix is to be found in files ending on .c and .h, whereas for assembly one should peruse .s and .S :) > > Thanks > Randy >
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