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Any of those instructions could be wrapped in a C function or intrinsic if they were valuable enough

• nuancebydefault 3y ago
  Wrapping other languages does not count when describing the hight-of-level of a language. In almost any language you can embed machine code, even in spoken languages. It would be like 'English is not easier than Chinese, since I can quote a Chinese sentence in English.'
  • jowea 3y ago
    There's a bit of a difference in that C has ways to closely integrate assembly as needed. Most languages don't.
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      They aren't part of C, they are compiler specific extensions. Any language can have compiler specific extensions. Playing fair game, all non toy languages can load modules written in Assembly. In fact that was the only way in K&R C, compiler extensions came later.