Re: Why HLL and not C?

Andreas Kochenburger <akk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
I meant HL Library, not HL Language. Within asm in C you
can call C functions easily, also from the C library.

Oh, you mean libc calls from asm. "Asm in C" usually
means `c` code with inline asm routines.

AFAIK assembler HLLs provide more or less the same
functionality as a C library.

Yes.

Paul Carter recommends in his PC Assembly Tutorial book to
go the C way. He seems convincing.

I agree.

I am only wondering wether there are strong arguments for
using assembler HLLs despite his advice.

It depends entirely on the functionality you require.
I like libc because it's easily available, well documented
and generally debugged. But sometimes, the FORTRAN libs
might be more useful :)

The advantage of an asm.lib would be complex access to
processor peculiarities (like MMX) that are not included
in libc. But in general, I tolerate libraries only for IO
and these are well covered by libc.

-- Robert


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