Re: C as assembly language

vbdis@aol.com (VBDis) writes:


>C was /designed/ as a replacement for assembly language, and IMO this
>goal is reached nowadays, too. No real assembler will define or deal
>with exceptions and like constructs, which are beyond the creation of
>CPU instructions.


That depends on what you mean by a "real" assembler.
ILASM, the assembler for the Intermediate Language used for
the Microsoft.NET platform, deals with exceptions and like constructs.
Likewise Jasmin and the various other Java bytecode assemblers do the same.
Are they real assemblers? If not, why not?
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