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[muppethex]

In spite of it all, I am quite liking the idea of assemblies. It's about time the arbitrary conceptual distinction between executables and libraries got thrown away, an executable is after all just a library with a default entry point

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[rowanlangley]

Ahh,
Happy memories of the Salford Univeristy FTN77 Fortran compiler with the nice wee extensions which were
CODE
C This allows the next bits of programming to be
C in assembly language until the instruction
EDOC
C After which we are back to FORTRAN77 again

Thus a fast subroutine could be realised in assembler but use the straightforward variable passing structures of FORTRAN's "SUBROUTINE" or "FUNCTION" statements.

Happy days

[muppethex]

It's fairly easy to stick inline assembly in 56f80x C too, either using _asm and _endasm for short bits or by declaring the whole function as asm. You've then got to try and figure out which registers the arguments got put in though ;)

It's often easier to fix problems on the embedded side because I've got more or less complete control and all of the source, whereas with Windows it's often a case of stabbing around in the dark until I hit something!