Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: fledgling assembler programmer Date: 23 Mar 2023 13:56:23 GMT Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <23-03-009@comp.compilers> References: <23-03-001@comp.compilers> <23-03-002@comp.compilers> <23-03-003@comp.compilers> Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="7424"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: assembler, practice, comment Posted-Date: 24 Mar 2023 10:15:35 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Originator: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3411 In article <23-03-003@comp.compilers>, Thomas Koenig 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]