4 ms·
I hate the term "high level assembly" when applied to C since it's loaded against assembly (in the sense of C as its superset) which is obviously not true. C i
by armitron 9y ago
I hate the term "high level assembly" when applied to C since it's loaded against assembly (in the sense of C as its superset) which is obviously not true.
C is full of undefined behavior, assembly is not.
- pmontra 9y agoHigh level != Superset Actually we often give up features and specialize with high level languages. That's why there are things easier to do in Ruby than in C++ and vice versa. They are all (usually much more convenient) subsets of assembly.
- antoinealb 9y agoWhat ? Assembly has undefined behavior, for example wrt unaligned access on some processors.