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On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:17:03 -0400, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>  
wrote:

> C has pointers but it doesn't have any of the stuff you
> usually want assembler for, like machine intrinsics.

Que?

1) Assembly doesn't need machine intrinsics.  High-level languages do.
2) Major C compilers support inlined assembly.  This usually suffices.
3) In general, there is very little that can't be done in C.


Rod Pemberton