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- Item forwarded by ALCABES to CPLUS.APPLE$
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- Item 4672643 17-Jan-90 20:05
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- From: D4682 Marx, Peter,PRT
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- To: D0578 Shiva,PRT
- CPLUS.DEV$ C++ Interest List--Developers
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- Sub: Re: C++ and the "asm" keyword
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- Mark -
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- According to the Apple-provided documentation, the C++ (CFront) doesn't support
- embedded asm {} statements. You may remember that the C compiler doesn't
- either, and that the CFront generates a C-code stream that is then fed to the
- compiler. This means that the limitations in C++ are partially depending upon
- the underlying compiler.
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- Apple's solution, such as it is, is to offer the full-fledged MPW Assembler
- which produces code that you can then call from C++. This is annoying if you
- are used to Think C (as we are), but usable.
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- Hope this helps.
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- Peter Marx
- UCLA Dept. of Medicine
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- 213/471-2754
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