On 20/07/2016 16:44, Paul Koning wrote:
It is true that a few RISC architectures are not very scrutable. Itanium is a notorious example, as are some VLIW machines. But many RISC machines are much more sane. MIPS and ARM certainly are no problem for any competent assembly language programmer.
Indeed. I've written a modest amount of assembly language code for MIPS, and a bit more for ARM, and I didn't find either at all inscrutable. Yes, be aware of pipelining and branches and so on, but it's not hard.
-- Pete
