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Sure but from software POV assembly is the lowest level you can target
by cylemons 10mo ago
Sure but from software POV assembly is the lowest level you can target
- jcelerier 10mo agoYes and no, you can use c in situations where there's no "assembly", for instance when synthesizing FPGAs. You target flow graphs directly in that case IIRC.
- torstenvl 10mo agoWhich assembly? Assembly with macros? Assembly with synthetic instructions? If you use mov %i0, %l0 instead of or %g0, %i0, %l0 Then that isn't "the lowest level you can target."
- cylemons 10mo agoI was thinking of x86 when I wrote that, also I am not sure macros count as an abstraction level since they are just preprocessors? What I meant to say is that since there is no way to directly write microcode, assembly is the lowest level software can target.