And that's fair. I tend to view C as high-level assembler which does mean some loss of fidelity from pure assembly. It seems like a case of being "close enough"

And that's fair. I tend to view C as high-level assembler which does mean some loss of fidelity from pure assembly. It seems like a case of being "close enough", I suppose, because switching to pure assembly would make it a lot harder to cover the subject matter in a standard semester.