> can you write in assembly when the codebase is frequently altered by someone with an optimizing compiler This itself is quite normal (e.g. we have .S files a

> can you write in assembly when the codebase is frequently altered by someone with an optimizing compiler This itself is quite normal (e.g. we have .S files and .c files and link them together), but I suppose a more accurate analogy would be that someone is dumping their optimising compiler output directly into your .S files. Maybe what we need is better ways to partition the slop-code and the not-slop code.