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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Can assembly language be dispensed with ? Post 302660637 by Corona688 on Friday 22nd of June 2012 05:50:08 PM
Old 06-22-2012
Embedded systems are often restricted and picky. There will definitely be things which can't be done in pure C, only assembler -- system-specific things and the like. (you can often do inline assembler in C to avoid having to make large sections of it, though).

Learning how to program them in assembler would help to explain what the system limits mean to C.
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ilasm, ilasm2 - Mono IL assembler SYNOPSIS
ilasm [option] [source-files] ilasm2 [option] [source-files] DESCRIPTION
ilasm is the Mono ILAsm assembler. You can pass one or more options to drive the compiler, and a set of source files. Use ilasm to generate 1.0 assemblies and use ilasm2 to assemble programs that use the 2.0 features (generics). The Mono ILAsm assembler accepts options starting with / or - for mosted options. The Mono ILAsm assembler generates images (.exe and .dll files) that contain CIL byte code that can be executed by any system that imple- mented a Common Language Infrastructure virtual machine. OPTIONS
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