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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portable "asm" (Was: The D Programming Language)
Message-ID: <2738@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 23:46:24 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <1988Feb25.203425.8925@utzoo.uucp> <689@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Clearly, assembler statements should have been defined as:

#asm <statement>

instead of

asm("statement");

This is almost worth doing in C; I would certainly do it in D (assuming the
preprocessor is kept).
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Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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