On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Chris M wrote:
You can write
inline assembler in your C source, but
the Turbo 2.0x
compiler can't do the assembly by itself -- it uses
Turbo Assembler
for that.
Is it a *recent* development of compilers that as an
intermediate step the source code will first be
reduced to assembler mnemonics, before being reduced
to object code?
Absolutely not. The UNIX world, at least, has been doing it that
way for decades.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL