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   Thomas Koenig to Anton Ertl   
   Re: Tonights Tradeoff   
   14 Nov 25 14:18:02   
   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Anton Ertl  schrieb:   
   > MitchAlsup  writes:   
      
   >>{Pedantic mode=ON}   
   >>Assembly language is ASSEMBLER specific.   
   >   
   > What I wanted to write was "And assembly language is   
   > architecture-specific".   
      
   foo_:   
           add     DWORD PTR [rdi], 1   
           ret   
      
   and   
      
   foo_:   
           addl    $1, (%rdi)   
           ret   
      
   are written in two different assembly languages, yet have the same   
   meaning when compiled.   
      
   > It's the builtin function that are compiler-specific.   
      
   Also, not really.  For x86, Intel defines them, and other   
   compilers like gcc follow suit.   
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