> are assemblers designed around simplicity of parsing and speed at processing compiler-produced assembly, or user experience for humans writing assembly, or is

> are assemblers designed around simplicity of parsing and speed at processing compiler-produced assembly, or user experience for humans writing assembly, or is the latter more common on architectures without good C compilers? That really depends on the assembler. Each one is different. Some support a degree of structured programming, while others do not even allow for relocatable addresses.