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From: ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long)
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Date: 22 Jul 88 16:29:36 GMT
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> If you want to put inline assembler in your C programs, can't you just
> hand-assemble the bytes to define bytes and include them, instead?  Or
> use the C preprocessor to define your bytes with mnemonics, then initialize
> an array using the mnemonics and use inline assembler to execute the array.

"Tell me what you need, I'll tell you how to live without it."  While what
you suggest will work, there is very little reason for the mnemonics to be
missing from the assembler.  Most assemblers are table-driven: adding
new mnemonics is fairly straightforward (once you have done it once!).

I'd class this as an oversight and expect Think to correct it in 3.0x.

=Ned=