I entirely agree.  The syntax for mapping C variables to in-line assembler
code is hideous and error-prone (at least for me).  Conversely, the linkage
for an assembler subroutine is very standard.  That's the way to go if the
code requires more than a couple of variables.

sas

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 7:08 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ...



> I still maintain that some code
> is still better written in assembler. I'm a C/C++ programmer these days
> but for some subroutines an assembler program is much easier to
> understand then lots of inlined  __asm() blocks.

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