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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Inline assembler; a quiz  (long; sorry)
Message-ID: <239@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 23:05:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.239
Posted: Mon Jun 29 23:05:44 1987
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Another reason for doing assembly in 'C' programs.

Not all C compilers are running on UNIX.

Some operating systems require heavy assembly language glue around
system calls. It's so much easier to put this glue in asm statements
in 'C' source.
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