Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Robert Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
|
| But the whole idea of hardware semantics is bogus, since you are
| assuming some connection between C and the hardware which does not
| exist. C is not an assembly language.
If you live in a different world, you may not see the connection.
I'm not sure whether this isn't just C's self-fulfilling
prophecy at work: Many C programmers think that C is a high level
assembly language (at least in my real world).
They start using C as if it were...
Then they charge C for not being defined at the machine
language level.
Georg
