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In my OS/architecture class we used a textbook whose author had piled on so much macro assembling on top of SPARC asm (macros all in m4, naturally) that he in e
by mjn 13y ago
In my OS/architecture class we used a textbook whose author had piled on so much macro assembling on top of SPARC asm (macros all in m4, naturally) that he in effect was writing the book using a personal high-level language constructed out of gobs of m4. Like the bizarro-world version of personalized language construction in Lisp-land...
Was this book (the first review complains about the same thing): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130255963/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0130255963&linkCode=as2&tag=kmjn-20 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130255963/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
- cglace 13y agoI used this book for OS/architecture class as well. I think the use of m4 needlessly complicated the material.