Why is it we're not all using Oberon again? :) Ah, I remember having meetings about things like that... now that was inertia. SFAIK, ( meaning I don't really )

Why is it we're not all using Oberon again? :) Ah, I remember having meetings about things like that... now that was inertia. SFAIK, ( meaning I don't really ) the various "Mikro" probably do the same thing that the native toolsets for , say PIC, do and simply add default, built-in symbols for bits in control registers and things like turning interrupts off/on. That keeps the amount of assembly further down. I feel confident in saying that because they'd want to make defection from the default say, AVR compiler chain as painless as possible. And of course, Linux drivers/ioctl() help a lot with bringing kernel mode things into user space. Using assembler in a driver is just one of those things we find acceptance with.