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> or they wither and fade away C and assembly enter the chat
by dmitrygr 4y ago
> or they wither and fade away
C and assembly enter the chat
- 331c8c71 4y ago> C and assembly enter the chat Wouldn't you agree that the fraction of software written in C or asm has shrunk tremendously over the last decades?
- pjmlp 4y agoC23 and AVX512 greet them.
- colejohnson66 4y agoI wonder what the ratio of intrinsics to raw assembly is
- pjmlp 4y agoThose using VC++ for ARM or amd64 only have intrisics to chose from, unless they make use of MASM (or similar), as it only supports inline Assembly in x86 mode. Burroughs (now Unisys ClearPath MCP) showed that intrisics are enough, no need for raw Assembly, so in a sense it isn't as crazy idea, and much developer friendly than the inline syntax used by GCC and clang.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoC is continuously gaining features as well (even if it didn't, it's entrenched as the low-level implementation language of all major operating systems, so it's an exception to the rule). Assembly is evolving at least at the speed of your target chip family.
- duped 4y agoWhich assembler syntax for which target and is it actually human writable or does it need a proprietary tool chain? ISAs have to exist but the way that code is generated for them is as varied as the landscape of high level languages.