Re: Assembler Directive

At 13:59:13, 29.08.2005, Anders Isaksson wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:04:47 +0200, "Dennis"
> <marianndkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Is it true that the assembler directive is deprecated and should not
> > be used anymore?
> >
> > I find it is used many times in the RTL and the RTL should be cleaned
> > up by removing all assembler directives.
>
> In .NET you cannot use assembler code (as it is intended for a specific
> CPU, something the generated IL code is not), so in view of that, yes
> assembler is deprecated.
>
> In Win32 you can still use assembler, and I suppose that asm will be
> available as long as Borland supports the Win32 platform.

I guess he meant the "assembler" directive, i.e. something like:

procedure Add(A, B: Integer): Integer; assembler;
asm
add eax,edx
end;

The "assembler" after the function declaration is absolutely unnecessary.
It does not do anything, anymore.

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