Re: fledgling assembler programmer

arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
23 Mar 2023 13:56:23 GMT

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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 23 Mar 2023 13:56:23 GMT
Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source
References: 23-03-001 23-03-002 23-03-003
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Keywords: assembler, practice, comment
Posted-Date: 24 Mar 2023 10:15:35 EDT
Originator: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)

In article 23-03-003,
Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
>Not ones written in assembler. But it is possible to download
>the source code to many libraries, for example glibc, and then
>examine what it is compiled to.


Getting more and more off topic, but I can't let this go.


Glibc is a S W A M P. A newbie who wanders in will drown and never
come out. Even if you are a very experienced C programmer, you don't
want to go there.


Learning assembler in order to understand how machines work is valuable.
Long ago I learned PDP-11 assembler, which is still one of the cleanest
architectures ever designed. I was taking a data structures course at
the same time, and recursion didn't click with me until I saw how it
was done in assembler.


My two cents,


Arnold
--
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com
[I must admit that when I write C code I still imagine there's a
PDP-11 underneath. -John]

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