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Very few people still know how to program in assembly. That's mostly reserved for low level guys where speed and small footprints are critical.
Assembly is still used extensively in gaming, OS development, supercomputer, and embedded systems.
I would consider myself fluent in both Intel and MIPS assembly, but not AT&T or SPARC. So if you have questions about assembly (both by itself or inline assembly in C*) ask away.
I dont have a question, but I just want to go on record saying one of my required electrical engineering classes was all assembly programming on a micro-processor and it SUUCCKKKEEEDDD, but I still got a B, lol
Can you make a dancing monkey with your skills?
Probably a MIPS processor right?Quote:
Originally Posted by tkdyo
Of course, I can put assembly into a Lego NXT Brick and make it dance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
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Originally Posted by ninja9578
How much does assembly differ between processors?
The flow of the program is the same, but the instructions are usually very different.
C:Intel (inline):Code:a = (4 * b) + (c \ 3)
MIPS:Code:mov bx, dword ptr [b]
shr bx, 2
mov cx, dword ptr [c]
div cx, 3
add cx, bx
mov dword ptr [a], cx
Code:lw t1%, [b]
shr t1%, t1%, 2
lw t2%, [c]
divi t2%, t2%, 3
add t2%, t1%, t2%
sw [a], t2%
I used to want to learn languages...but then I realized all it does is turn you into a user with more options.... So I quit =(Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578