Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general Subject: Re: How many x86 instructions? Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:37:28 +0000 Organization: 255 software Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <53068f25$1@news.bnb-lp.com> <5306baeb$1@news.bnb-lp.com> <5307a5d9$1@news.bnb-lp.com> <5foOu.2965$4U7.97@fx21.iad> Reply-To: G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0281d6415d68b532a56cb381864f6052"; logging-data="18421"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+A0KTH4CCiZo6HOHzRlnQX" User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M () Cancel-Lock: sha1:nFc0TFxEQm7InGtT1wilXemOalU= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.intel:321 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:1158 In message <5foOu.2965$4U7.97@fx21.iad>, charlie writes: [] >At the time, the only out we had in order to meet contract requirements >was to write a combination of assembly code, compiled code, and >horrors, >machine code. If that wasn't bad enough, we then had to "disassemble" >the machine code to see if there was a way to duplicate it at the >highest level possible, without writing compiler extensions. What's machine code (as opposed to assembly code) in this context? How did you write it? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf (If you are unlucky you may choose one of the old-fashioned ones [language schools] and be taught English as it should be, and not as it is, spoken.) George Mikes, "How to be Decadent" (1977).