> If you're very experienced in assembler, transitioning to c will be > relatively painless.
I'd much rather write in asm any day. C drives me mad. As for c++ that - shoot me now . I understand why old mainframe hacks would rather use asm. The instruction set is pretty high-level compared with many. And when you've coded in horizontal microcode mainframe asm is near as damn it COBOL. :-) Richard - - Richard J Moore - FIET, FBCS, CEng, CITP IBM z/VM CP Development Member of the IBM Academy of Technology http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/academy/index.html MOBEX: 37264807; Mobile (+44) (0)7739-875237 Office: (+44) (0)1962-817072 Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 19/11/2009 19:54:10: > From: > > Patrick Spinler <spinler.patr...@mayo.edu> > > To: > > LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: > > 19/11/2009 19:55 > > Subject: > > Re: assembler and LINUX > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > >> Hello ! > >> I am an experienced assembler programmer, BUT I do not have any clue how > >> to write , assemble etc. in LINUX , where do I start ?? Any help > >> is appreciated . Thanks Gunter > >> > > gas, part of the gnu compiler suite, is the standard supported assembler > on (most? all?) linuxes. > > As other posters mentioned, though, programming in assembly is > incredibly rare, and only done in very specific niches. Otherwise, at > least program in c, if not something higher. > > If you're very experienced in assembler, transitioning to c will be > relatively painless. Many of the issues that people have a hard time > wrapping their technique around, such as pointers and memory > (de)allocation, are very familiar to assembly coders. > > - -- Pat > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAksFomIACgkQNObCqA8uBswsGACfc5x2sviHZjwvYuv32jJWkPsB > Q3cAoJYRQLwAitJdPV3vFezDTngxDaKU > =fgQY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
