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From: insecure <insecure@mail.od.ua>
To: Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>,
	Yann Droneaud <yann.droneaud@mbda.fr>,
	fruhwirth clemens <clemens-dated-1063536166.2852@endorphin.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nasm over gas?
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:28:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309050128.47002.insecure@mail.od.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309042257.12739.mhf@linuxmail.org>

On Thursday 04 September 2003 17:57, Michael Frank wrote:
> Concur, not worthwhile to start using a fairly unsupported tool in the
> kernel.
>
> As to using assembler, It is better to get rid of it but in special cases.
> Todays compilers are the better coders in 98+% of applications, and if you

Better coders? Show me the evidence.

> follow some of the discussions here on the list, you will be amazed what
> people do with a C compiler - all portable and much more maintainable.

Portable yes. Maintainable yes. Better code _no_.

I'd say compiler generated asm code quality can be anywhere in between of
"hair raising crawling horror" and "not so bad although I can do better".

I have never seen really clever compiler yet. Writing a good compiler
is a very tough thing to do.
-- 
vda

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-04 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-04 10:42 nasm over gas? Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 12:32 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-04 13:44 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:05   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 14:21     ` Sean Neakums
2003-09-04 14:33       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 15:09         ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:55     ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 21:16       ` George Anzinger
2003-09-04 14:57   ` Michael Frank
2003-09-04 15:43     ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 22:28     ` insecure [this message]
2003-09-05 12:59       ` Michael Frank
2003-09-05 17:28         ` insecure
2003-09-05 17:45           ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-06 17:18             ` insecure
2003-09-07 18:49           ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-07 19:30             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 21:37               ` insecure
2003-09-09 21:34             ` insecure
2003-09-11 11:07               ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 15:26                 ` insecure
2003-09-12 17:27                   ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 22:17                     ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-13 19:25                       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 19:51                         ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-11 14:03               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-11 17:05                 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 20:56           ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-05 13:27       ` Jesse Pollard
2003-09-05 23:51     ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-09-06  1:41       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-04 14:56 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 11:42 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-05 12:04   ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 12:37     ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-05 12:21 John Bradford
2003-09-05 12:25 John Bradford
2003-09-05 12:25 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-06 22:08   ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-09-07 20:40     ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 13:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-05 13:57 John Bradford
2003-09-05 15:39 ` Mehmet Ceyran
2003-09-06 20:24   ` David B. Stevens
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2003-09-08 12:03         ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 13:53           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-08 16:10             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:17           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:45             ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 16:58               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 17:59           ` William Lee Irwin III
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2003-09-08 12:07       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-09-08 20:08             ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau

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