Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!rose!ccplumb From: ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb) Subject: Re: standard extensions Message-ID: <1991Feb26.172239.10089@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes) Organization: University of Waterloo References: <3381.27c548c3@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <1991Feb25.135057.23667@linus.mitre.org> <1991Feb25.201406.18643@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 1991 17:22:39 GMT Lines: 12 kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell) wrote: >But on the other hand -- why put assembler into a program at all? The people who really love gcc's assembler inlining features are OS writers. I suspect that inline assembler spl?() does wonderful things to some Unix kernel code, as does access to test-and-set or other atomic instructions in other kernels. But it's also useful if I just happen to acquire some desperate need to use the VAX's edit instruction. -- -Colin Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com