Re: Structs in Assembly

Wrong. Once done, he will have an _HLL_, instead
of an HLL Pre-Parser. Period.

So said, Troll, i am afraid that you under-estimate
the time and capacity envolved with writing what
you call an "x86 code generator"... and if it was
as easy as what you seem to believe, our prefered
ass-hole would have finished it since ages, instead
of trying to sell an HLL Pre-Parser, on young heads,
under the name of *Assembler*.


I'd say, Troll, you overestimate it.

The difficulty of implementing a compiler (and an assembler is one) depends on the complexity and expressiveness of the language and on the optimizations done.
Therefore a straightforward assembler is by definition the easiest of compilers (straight opcode translation and no optimization).
Of course, every feature you add towards higher level add complexity.
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