merlyn@starfire.UUCP (Brian Westley) (08/10/87)
One drawback to using a high-level language is that it puts another level of complex software between your algorithm and your binary. Witness the problems with Lightspeed C executing code off the stack, or botching the startup to main(). At least with assembly, I'm fairly sure of what I'm getting. Merlyn Leroy
ken@rochester.arpa (Ken Yap) (08/10/87)
|One drawback to using a high-level language is that it puts another |level of complex software between your algorithm and your binary. |Witness the problems with Lightspeed C executing code off the stack, |or botching the startup to main(). At least with assembly, I'm |fairly sure of what I'm getting. Don't blame a bad implementation on the language. And I have encountered buggy assemblers too. Ken