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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Inline assembly code possible with any compiler
Message-ID: <1222@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 90 02:47:20 GMT
References: <1990Sep4.100511.10686@uokmax.uucp> <528@demott.COM>
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kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:

>In article <1990Sep4.100511.10686@uokmax.uucp> bateman@nsslsun.gcn.uoknor.edu (Monte Bateman) writes:
>>It's possible to do in-line assembler with ANY compiler.    
>>[ abominable technique of executing a string of octal constants deleted].

>    Sorry, that isn't in-line assembly.  It's unsupportable, and since
>  [ other reasons deleted ]

Furthermore, it isn't assembly because it is absolute machine code, a related
but truly different animal.  In particular, it may not be workable on
architectures that require absolute addresses for jumps and such.  Assembly
code takes care of such stuff for you; absolute coding does not.
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