Re: Concerning RosASM

Betov,

Portability is exactly the same for Assembly as for any
other language. That is, the basic rule is: If you do
nothing, it will "work" :)))) under all configurations.
If you do little with the OS, ports will be easy (just
replace the OS calls for each version), and if you do
much, like in almost all real life Applications, porting
will be a pain in the ass. Nothing theorically impossible,
though, but not yet ever done, but for HLLs, at a well know
cost.

This is unmitigated bullsh*t, it is only laguages that are specifically
designed to be portable that are and in ordinary terms they are JAVA
and C. C in particular can be built using the SAME code on entirely
different hardware, x86, ppc mac, sun, mips, SGI etc ..... and the real
punch line is the code does not have to change.

This is why LINUX is so popular, as long as an ANSI C complaint C
compiler is available for the particular hardware, you can build linux
on it and have an OS.

You may try and feed this crap to beginners but there are many people
who frequent these newsgroups that know the difference. The only thing
that will make you an expert is a brain transplant.

Regards,

hutch at movsd dot com

.

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