Re: C code .vs. Assembly code for Microcontrollers/DSPs ?

>I don't agree that compilers can do "better code" than 9/10
>programmers if "better code" = "faster code". Consider an interrupt
>function. The C compiler is going to push all the registers on the
>stack, whereas a careful programmer can be very tricky about stack
>pushes and pops in order to minimize them.


Managing which registers need to be saved/restored is one of those
things that compilers do easily and reliably.
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Alex Colvin
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